Billy Carter Quotes
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
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In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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Concussions have brought the consciousness to the problem, but I think the problem is football-related injuries, period, and the lack of support from the league of those players who have suffered those injuries. The denial factor has been unbelievable. I'm here because I'm a fighter to try to bring attention to this fact.
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I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.
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When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.
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There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.
