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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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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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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In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.
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If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.
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The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.
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When people feel accountable and included, it is more fun.
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
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Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.