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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People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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I always say if the house I live in is comfortable, and I have all the amenities I need, then what more can you ask for?
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I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.
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The Choice, after all, is ours to make.
