Karen Elson Quotes
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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'If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town...'
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There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together and actually run the school themselves. That's kind of the most radical way, but I think something that's more doable across the board is just creating career ladders for teachers that allow certain teachers after a certain number of years to inhabit new roles. Roles mentoring their peers, helping train novice teachers to be better at their jobs, roles writing the curriculum, leading on lesson planning.
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I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't... You can't live your life for your routines.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
