Karen Walker Quotes

I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.

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• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Why
  • American
  • Culture

• I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Play
  • Look
  • Top

• I don't get out to parties often.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Get
  • Often
  • Out

• I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Live
  • Everything
  • Someone

• One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Important
  • Reading
  • Always

• My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Driving
  • Hollywood
  • Helped

• I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

  

  Jack Herer
  • High
  • Girl
  • Me

• Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Women
  • Audience
  • Nude

• The windows of my soul are made of one way glassDon't bother looking into my eyesIf there's something you want to know - just ask.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Soul

• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Fool

• In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

  

  Andre Holland
  • People
  • Equality

• The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Trying

• There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • Science
  • Couple

• I travel so much when I work, I've really been happy to do 'Nice Work' because I feel like a true New Yorker again. I have my little regimen during the day, and I can take advantage of the museums and the things that I love. And people watching!

  

  Blythe Danner
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• OVOXO will always be there.

  

  The Weeknd

• When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Experience
  • Unique
  • Green

• I still have my Levi's jacket that I bought on the Portobello Road when I was 14, and it's like part of me, you know, it's got oils in it, and it's my comfort, security blanket or something.

  

  Liberty Ross
  • Road

• If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Why

• I was pleased with both games. Our sportsmanship was outstanding.

  

  Wade Clark Mackey
  • Games
  • Outstanding
  • Sportsmanship

• The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Done
  • Better
  • Identity

• The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

  

  John Cotton Dana
  • Needs
  • Library
  • Natural

• I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.

  

  Karen Walker
  • Done
  • Needs
  • My Time