Emily Carr Quotes
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
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To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
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Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something.
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I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.
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Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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He throws hard, he's got a good slider. We haven't seen him before, which is not good for us, historically.
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Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
