Karen Salmansohn Quotes
If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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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.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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Everything is absurd.
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If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe.
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...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.
