Karen DeCrow Quotes
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.
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One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.
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The 'Gossip Girl' idea and ideologies, like, they sort of encourage this certain kind of, like, materialism and superficiality that isn't, I would say, the best thing in the world.
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Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
