Karen Civil Quotes
I come from a great home and fully supportive family that helped to nurture my dreams. A lot of people don't have those same things in their household.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
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It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.
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I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.
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If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
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We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
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I come from a great home and fully supportive family that helped to nurture my dreams. A lot of people don't have those same things in their household.
