Rachel Carson Quotes
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
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'Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.'
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There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.
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I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.
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My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.
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As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
