Carol Birch Quotes
It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
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I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
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I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
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When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.
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It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the future.
