Carol Grace Quotes
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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While taking the 'best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism' - which one assumes would exclude the forced abortions, imprisonment for homosexuals and forced labor
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Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
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In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
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I knew why people were afraid of the future. Because the future wasn’t going to look like the past. That was really scary.
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The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.
