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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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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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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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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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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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
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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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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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Live. Breathe. It is not fear that we need to live by, but joy, hope. Inside you, in your ocean, maybe it seems barren; maybe it feels as if there is no hope, no kindness, no reason for happiness. But deep within you, undeniably, something rumbles, cries out, wants to be born. Allow the joy to come forward. Allow the hope to exist.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
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Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
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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.
