Karen Civil Quotes
I was born to Haitian parents, and the idea of giving back is really just a part of our culture. So, I don't think there was ever a moment that I questioned my call to philanthropy, but I can say that the more I've grown, the bigger that call has become.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.
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When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
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There are some Questions, some battles, some Hiccups that are worth losing a world for. And perhaps even when all ends in disaster, you cannot do the wrong thing, if you do it out of love.
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.
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Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.
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I was born to Haitian parents, and the idea of giving back is really just a part of our culture. So, I don't think there was ever a moment that I questioned my call to philanthropy, but I can say that the more I've grown, the bigger that call has become.
