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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From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.
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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
