Karen Civil Quotes
Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don't ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.
Quotes to Explore
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
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I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character.
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Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don't ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.
