Karen Kain Quotes
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I'm not a control freak.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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Food is always a favorite on my docket when I go somewhere.
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I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.
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The bigger budget films only shoot about a page or two a day, so there's very specific amount of time spent on detail and getting each tidbit exactly how they want it. In a movie or TV show, you shoot eight or ten pages and you aren't afforded as much time to do each scene.
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Hydrogen peroxide-based bombs were used in the London bombings in 2005; in al Qaeda's foiled plot to attack subways in New York City in 2009 and also in the ISIS-directed Paris attacks in 2015 and the ISIS-directed attacks in Brussels a year later.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
