Karen Elson Quotes
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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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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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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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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We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.
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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.
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What is it that they say about the winter of our discontent? Those were my years of misbehaving. I just had too much money. I was in Paris, London and New York all the time. I had the best of everything, but I was so unhappy.
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I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book! William Shakespeare
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But don't you find this interesting that the one big area where gay men are more like straight men is in sex? I mean, that is?both amusing and odd.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
