Karen Walker Quotes
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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I've had such an odd career.
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One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'
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He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
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I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.
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Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
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Fashion is a mirror, reflecting the culture.
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The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic warfare in the future are frightening. My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.
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You know, an iPhone is fashion everything is fashion.
