Bliss Carman Quotes
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Anybody down 2-0 going into half-time must be concerned. At the same time I tried my best not to panic, but to look at the changes we need to make to swing the game our way... I came up with four changes and that changed the game tremendously,
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist...
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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
