Karen Duffy Quotes

A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.

Karen Duffy

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PeopleMindMeDiagnosisClearJust

I don't think I'm a slacker, but I don't have aspirations to, like, conquer Hollywood. Or the world. Or anything.

Jesse Plemons

WorldThinkConquerHollywoodLike

It's a great thing that the United States has given the rest of the world - no other country has given such great popular music to the Far East and Europe. When I play those great countries, a lot of times, the audience starts singing the songs with me. They know them. They love them.

Tony Bennett

LoveMusicGreatMeSingingWorld

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

Tony Judt

LifeGovernmentSmallAmericanRole

I don't want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it's hard to get into the studio and do what I do.

Missy Elliott

YouArtistGoWantHardAlways

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Milan Kundera

HappinessLaughterTempleSoundLike

I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have.

Liz Phair

QualityNewTryAlwaysEverything

It's so jarring to go from Baghdad to Cambridge, to go from a place where people are fighting and striving and dying to a place where the biggest concern is what kind of cheese to put in your sandwich.

Dexter Filkins

PeopleFightingPlaceStrivingKind

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walker

LifeDeathBelieveBetterBoring

I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

Percy Sledge

SadPeopleMeSingingWorldWoods

I watched a lot of American TV, all those repeats of 'Star Trek,' 'Fantasy Island,' 'M*A*S*H,' 'Lost in Space.' All that stuff was the fodder of my childhood.

Toby Stephens

ChildhoodSpaceAmericanLostIsland

Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

Marla Maples

LifeTogetherWorldFightingYou

You always dream of going to the Olympics and winning gold. I've learned over the years that there are lots of gold medals, but certain stories stick out and make a difference.

Kerri Strug

GoldWinningMake A DifferenceYou

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