Karen Civil Quotes

I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'

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• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Up
  • City
  • Fashion

• I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Best
  • Years
  • Review

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Home
  • Day
  • Birthday

• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Strength
  • Gain
  • Surroundings

• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Struggle
  • Courage

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Blessing
  • Sucks

• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Door
  • Looking
  • Citizens

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Want
  • You
  • Make It Happen

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Want
  • Living

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, 'Damn, they stole my thing.' I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Appreciation

• I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.

  

  Brea Grant
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Joy

• I propose changing fear for hope. I propose changing Mexico.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Hope
  • Fear

• I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'

  

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