Carol Emshwiller Quotes
May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party Communist Party of China and the downfall of the State People's Republic of China.
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.
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I like to dress up and put on a nice suit for a party or a special event; I do enjoy it, but on a daily basis, I wear stuff that I feel comfortable in, you know?
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Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.
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I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.
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It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.
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I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.
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We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth … They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.
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May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.