Karen Walker Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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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.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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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.
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I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
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I don't get out to parties often.
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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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.
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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.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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To be truly 'soigne,' a man should have 80 suits.
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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.
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The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.
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I want the last cheque I write to bounce.
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I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him.
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I prioritise my time so what needs to be done, gets done.
