Karl Valentin Quotes
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We strivin' for perfection.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
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Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.
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Everything has already been said, but not yet by everyone.
