Stephen Carter Quotes
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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We always trend set.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.
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Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.
