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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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
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I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.
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There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
