Karen DeCrow Quotes

From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.

Karen DeCrow

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• I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Think
  • Game
  • Fans

• I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Victory

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Find
  • Determination

• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Influence

• My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Art
  • She

• Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Time
  • Work
  • Dog

• Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Law
  • Police
  • Gun

• I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Home
  • Think
  • Movies

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • You
  • Parent

• I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Music
  • Think
  • Made

• We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Legacy

• People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Now
  • Last

• When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

  

  M. Ward
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm a work in progress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Progress

• I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

  

  Gail Collins
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• In real life, I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Giving
  • Yourself

• No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
  • Up
  • Money
  • Home

• We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
  • Control

• From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Work
  • Think
  • Chicago