Karen Civil Quotes
I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.
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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
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When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.
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I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.
