David Carson Quotes
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.
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I love my fans in Pakistan for being so kind and letting me be myself. Along this journey of exploring myself and a new world out here, I'm always going to make them proud, too. They're my constant support system.
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It can get a bit boring working on accents.
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I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.
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Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.
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Overall, people are reading less.
