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 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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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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Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.
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I find it weird that people want to know about you.
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My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
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When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'
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Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
