Karen Duffy Quotes

My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.

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• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

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• Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

  

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• I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I thought it's very funny that I ended up as a voiceover guy because when I started out as an actor, I had a very strong Long Island accent.

  

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• Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
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• Women drive box office.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
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• I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

  

  Gail Carriger
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• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
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• Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

  

  Gautam Adani
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• Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

  

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• They say women and music should never be dated.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Opportunities
  • Injury

• I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.

  

  Tamron Hall
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  • Kids
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• As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
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• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I'm an explorer.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
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• I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

  

  Larry King
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• I don't believe fundamentally in anything but the awakening of spirit, hope, and freedom.

  

  Nicole Mones
  • Believe
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• The world is a pile of grunge.

  

  Jo Stafford
  • World
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• Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Live
  • America
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• If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Together

• My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.

  

  Karen Duffy
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  • White
  • Worship