Raymond Carver Quotes
It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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Let us have peace.
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So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. Hours that rejoice and regret for a span, Born with a man's breath, mortal as he; Loves that are lost ere they come to birth, Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth. I lose what I long for, save what I can, My love, my love, and no love for me!
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.
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Fans always ask me to marry them so I'll have a lot of wives
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.
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The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ... if I can't take him with me, I don't want to go.
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I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
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Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
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I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.
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It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
