Rachel Carson Quotes
We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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I don't like attacking.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
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I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.
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I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.
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We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?