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 turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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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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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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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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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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I'm always open to meeting people, but I would be lying if I didn't say that my trust issues have changed because of 'Modern Family.'
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With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?
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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
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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.
