Karen Elizabeth Gordon Quotes

Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

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• We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

  

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  • Leave
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• The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.

  

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  • Done
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• There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

  

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  • Actress
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• Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.

  

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• Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Decision
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• I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Up
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• I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Think
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• Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty

• No man ever entered the White House under the burden of a more inconvenient past. And no President was ever denounced with greater ferocity. - said of Andrew Jackson

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Up
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• Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
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• And fear not lest Existence closing your Account, and mine, should know the like no more; The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Fear
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• Ἐγὼ διδαχθεὶς ἐν κακοῖς ἐπίσταμαιπολλοὺς καθαρμούς, καὶ λέγειν ὅπου δίκησιγᾶν θ᾽ ὁμοίως.

  

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• Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
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  • Cold

• I bought my parents a house. Then I bought myself a Rolex. My brother forced me to do it, but I'm glad he did.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • House
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

  

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• Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Music
  • Hours

• Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Mind
  • Heaven
  • Literature

• I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Good
  • Live
  • Cold

• Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • World
  • Heart
  • Past

• Teeth of winter, sinking into my flesh, my own clacking against each other like knitting needles, and I wish they'd knit a heavy shawl around my shoulders before widening into a yawn. Why do I always yawn when I'm cold?

  

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  • Cold
  • Winter
  • Shoulders