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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There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of. I suspect there is now such a sea-change and it is for Mrs. Thatcher.
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In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.
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With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.
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The notion that the staging of the play Harry Potter should be raw magic and street theater rather than high-tech theater, was essential.
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By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.
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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.'
