Karen Elizabeth Gordon Quotes
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And our dreams are who we are.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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I drink therefore I am.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
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The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.
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It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to.
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As for 'taste' as a criterion of painting I find that it is most frequently applied to work that is essentially insensitive, brutal or vulgar beyond question. Could it now be a term with political undertones to seduce, or cover profounder motives of exploitation? I propose it be kept to the wine cellar. There it deceives no one but him who over-indulges.
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All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.
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Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.
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There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
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Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
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There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.
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I don't go to Mass every day. But I go to church every day. Just sitting there, thinking - it's a great way to start the morning, you know? You feel so good coming out, and your approach to everything is suddenly really clear.
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There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.
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So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.
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My goal isn't to wake up in the morning and hurt people's feelings.
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My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.
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'As I Lay Dying,' I reread that often. That's the first work of Faulkner's that I read that so amazed me and that I responded to emotionally and viscerally. I admired it so much, and I think that's why I keep rereading it.
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I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.
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The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.
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We waltzed Lisztlessly.
