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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Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.
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I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.
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The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract.
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But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.
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Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
