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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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 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 word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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The only standard journalists respect is: Will this story promote the left-wing agenda?
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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
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I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
