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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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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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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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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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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People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what they already know of God instead of to learn what they are supposed to believe? What if they were blessed for what they are doing in the world instead of chastened for not doing more at church? What if church felt more like a way station than a destination? What if the church’s job were to move people out the door instead of trying to keep them in, by convincing them that God needed them more in the world than in the church?
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When I was a lot younger, I did some work with St. Jude's, but then we went on a 'Red Band' tour across the United States, and we went to a bunch of hospitals and had the privilege of meeting kids who are suffering or going through these different situations.
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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.'
