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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When you want to do something, you have to do it whole-heartedly.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
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You cannot teach ambition.
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If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
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You know, an iPhone is fashion everything is fashion.
