Karen Civil Quotes
While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren't in 'XXL' or 'The Source.'
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
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What's in my pocket?You never knewYou didn't know me wellSo well, as I knew you
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I was a kid who was born and raised on Johnny Cash. My father played 'At Folsom Prison' constantly. Cash was the only thing I remember coming from our big, warm stereo console. Even then, I knew Cash was uncool. I knew he was an unhip Republican.
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I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.
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Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
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Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.
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While working for Diplomat Records, I helped several artists with their online branding and social media. Once I left the label, I worked directly with artists and noticed many artists were overlooked and underrated if they weren't in 'XXL' or 'The Source.'
