Raymond Carver Quotes
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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Being a single mother was the right thing for me. But I have a tremendous amount of help from my friends. They're in love with my kids, and my kids are in love with them.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.
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I'm a generally optimistic person.
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Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?
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When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.
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It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
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We come from different backgrounds. Some people grow up with money in their pocket, or they have a certain last name; others have nothing. But it comes down to work ethic. That's where we all play on the same playing field.
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I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.
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The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.
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What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I've learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can't compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can't create a sense of peace within you.
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That's one of the good things about being recognisable - if you need a quick escape, the cabbies will take care of you.
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I'm intent on marketing Jamaica. Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
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Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
