Karamo Brown Quotes
Every show I've been on, my kids pay no attention. They're just like, 'Who cares. It's just dad's job.'
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
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I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.
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I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.
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I like wearing scarves in my hair because they make me look put together without taking a lot of time.
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I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.
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Every show I've been on, my kids pay no attention. They're just like, 'Who cares. It's just dad's job.'
