Nell Carter Quotes
I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
Quotes to Explore
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
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Life is full of a thousand red herrings, and it takes the history of a civilisation to work out which are the red herrings and which aren't.
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From the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Under thy window I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
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To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.
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Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.
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Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record.
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I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
