Carmen Lawrence (Carmen Mary Lawrence) Quotes
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
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I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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I would train with a gay man. As long as he respected me, it's all right. I don't think much of it. The fact that a guy is gay doesn't mean he's going to accost you. He can be gay, have a relationship, live among guys who aren't gay. He can do whatever he wants with his private life.
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We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
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If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."
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It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.
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Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
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There's a dance of mutual destruction going on between the media and politicians.
