Karen Bass Quotes
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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My mom is a beautiful, amazing woman. We didn't have a ton of money growing up, and even, at one point, we were living on food stamps. But my mom still managed to make sure we ate healthy and were always fed nutritious meals!
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
