Karen Kain Quotes

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

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• Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fall

• I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Black
  • Color

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Practice

• I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Like
  • Baseball
  • Sound

• Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Good
  • Television

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Say
  • Clothes
  • Been

• I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Country
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Live
  • Want
  • Day

• If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • People
  • Work
  • Worry

• The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Today
  • Yesterday
  • Myths

• It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Love
  • Friends

• We can understand that people, seeing this anti-charter slander by certain media, end up thinking ‘Oh God, am I right to support the charter? Am I a good person?’ Well, yes, you are a good person, ladies and gentlemen, you’re part of the majority of people who want a charter.

  

  Bernard Drainville
  • People
  • Support
  • Charter

• As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Want
  • Man
  • Always

• I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • House
  • Things

• Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Want
  • Well

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive