Carl Olson Quotes
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'
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Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
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Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.
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What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.
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He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
