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 Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.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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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 beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
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I love being a dad. I'd do it full-time if I didn't have to make a living.
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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
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I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'
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My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.
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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.
