Karen Bender Quotes

My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.

Karen Bender

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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

Harold Pinter
- Mean
- Never
- Understand
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Viggo Mortensen
- People
- Nature
- Think
My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

Fleur East
- People
- Black
- Dad
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

Sadhu Vaswani
- Up
- Great
- God
I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.

Rand Paul
- Different
- History
- Alone
For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

Zach Wamp
- World
- American
- Years