Karen Black Quotes
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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When we shift our perception, our experience changes.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
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If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.
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There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
