Karamo Brown Quotes
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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They were the darkest of times, the years following the crash of the stock market in 1929. Thousands of people across the United States were cast out of their Jobs, off their farms, out of their homes and apartments, and into the crushing depths of poverty.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am.
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Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
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I've been around the block.
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I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.
