Duane G. Carey Quotes
There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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You only have to wade through a metric measure or two of European prose, culled from its directives, circulars, reports, communiqués or what pass as debates in its 'parliament', and you will quickly understand that Europe is, in truth, synonymous with bureaucracy – to which one might add 'to', 'from' and 'with' bureaucracy if one were so minded.
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Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.
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I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
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There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
