Carol Bly Quotes
I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
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If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
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The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
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Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.
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Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.
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I always try and put out posts on social media about feeling good inside, and there's so much pressure for people to look a certain way and have a certain hairstyle or a certain lipstick.
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[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.
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In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.
