Karen DeCrow Quotes
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
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I am mindful of achieving the right balance in my life and am working hard on that also. To enjoy the little moments of goodness when they appear, to be present with the people I love and to spread light wherever possible.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
