Emily Carr Quotes
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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'The King and I' - one of the first films I ever saw.
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I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present within ourselves. It tells the truth about the human condition - that we're not okay.
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The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
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Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.
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While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other.
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
