Duane G. Carey Quotes
I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
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I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.
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A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
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I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.
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I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.
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I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.
