Peter Carey Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza -
Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
Candice Olson -
You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
Aaron Sorkin
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Nancy Roman -
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Queen Latifah -
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
Orson Welles -
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand -
In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
Halle Berry -
The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
Gabriel Heatter -
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
Harri Holkeri
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I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.
Karan Johar -
I will tell my best friends who I'm attracted to, but I'm not going to talk about it in a newspaper... It has nothing to do with my work.
Alia Bhatt -
One of the things that is so striking to me about the South, especially living here now as an adult, is that I see a lot more mixed-race couples than I saw when I was growing up in the 1980s and the 1990s. I feel like living across the color lines has become something that's more expected.
Jesmyn Ward -
They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there.
Margaret Anderson -
I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.
Serena Williams -
Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.
Peter Carey