Carmen Rasmusen (Carmen Rasmusen Herbert) Quotes
The best advice I could give is be yourself. Before I was on the American Idol show I made goals for myself. I said, "Who do I want to be, and what will I compromise, or won't I compromise?" And then, I stuck with that.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
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The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
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I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
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You ask every conceivable question after Sept. 11 in terms of what more could have been done, what could have been done differently. My impression from working on these cases and investigations for almost nine years was that an awful lot of people were working over time to connect dots.
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Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!
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We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
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Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
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The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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The best advice I could give is be yourself. Before I was on the American Idol show I made goals for myself. I said, "Who do I want to be, and what will I compromise, or won't I compromise?" And then, I stuck with that.
