Rachel Carson Quotes
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I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip corner pulled up and in a dismissive sneer.
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I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.
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At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.
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Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.
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One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
