Karen Bass Quotes
My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov
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My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.
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I'm a big supporter of the military simply because I'm the daughter of a Polish immigrant who fled Europe during World War II from Poland and lied about his age to join the Army simply because he was proud to be an American. And who isn't?
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Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.
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Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
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Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild.
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My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.
