Karrine Steffans's Quotes
Born: 1978-08-24
Profession: Author
Nation: American
Biography of Karrine Steffans
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
Tags: Good, Great, WriterEveryone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
Tags: Men, Women, YoungFor women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
Tags: WomenI don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
Tags: Friends, Listen, WhiteI remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'
Tags: Business, Mean, MotherI've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
Tags: Model, Stay, WriterLife is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
Tags: Control, Life, RealizeMy grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
Tags: Died, Mine, StartedSomething that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.
Tags: Another, Men, WomenThe entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
Tags: Industry, Reflection, SocietyThere are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
Tags: Life, Personal, ShareWhen Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.
Tags: Her, Memoirs, SaidYour man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
Tags: Committed, Him, WantsA lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!
Tags: Men, Women, Work'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.
Tags: Book, Life, MayEvery man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.
Tags: Him, Men, TimesI've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.
Tags: Friends, Girl, MenI've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
Tags: School, Single, WritingIn certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
Tags: Another, Home, MoneyWe know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.
Tags: Father, Mother, WomenCarbon zero simply means that the emissions you are releasing either are zero or balance out to zero.
Tags: Balance, Either, MeansCopenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.
Tags: Done, Focused, JobIn almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
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At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.
Tags: Best, Heart, TogetherCities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.
Tags: Decisions, Energy, HappenDeep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.
Tags: Deep, Experience, MovingFor most people, using the Internet broadens their sense of who 'we' is and actually ends up leaving us in a place of greater compassion and understanding. It leaves us more connected to a larger group of people and more at one with a lot more people in our community.
Tags: Compassion, Leaving, PlaceI think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.
Tags: Change, Technology, UnderstandI think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.
Tags: Care, Start, TogetherIf mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.
Tags: Car, Create, SocialIf we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.
Tags: Best, Said, TimeOne of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is wrong and that fighting it makes you an environmentalist.
Tags: Fighting, Makes, WrongThe biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.
Tags: Good, Growing, SomeoneThe planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
Tags: Big, Problem, Problems