Rachel Carson Quotes
The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
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The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
