Rachel Carson Quotes
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.
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Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.
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Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in his faith, Elijah in his courage, for one woman scared him away to that juniper-tree; and Peter, whose strong point was boldness, was so frightened by a maid, as to deny his Lord.
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Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
