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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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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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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Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
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I'm not much of a matchmaker. I think people have to make their own choices and mistakes and all that stuff.
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It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
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It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
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They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
