Karen Bender Quotes
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
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Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.
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You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.
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Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
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To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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Money is not a measure of a man's character or success in the arena of public service.
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What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
