Rachel Carson Quotes
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.
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For me, development gives strongest foundation to the secularism.
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I like museums in Berlin a lot, especially in the eastern part. They're extraordinarily good.
Elliott Erwitt -
If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
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Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.
