Karen Elson Quotes
I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.
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The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it comes with age.
