Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes
Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.
Quotes to Explore
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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While I'm an athlete and while I'm fighting actively, I don't intend to pursue a career in politics. What happens after that, we'll see. But I don't have an intention to do both at the same time.
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Being a mom has been my most important job to date, and I take my job very seriously, and I have a lot of fun doing it.
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My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
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I always have to bring back an all-A report card.
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People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
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I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed at his insistence. JFK showed what you could do, though he was a deeply flawed person, as we all now know.
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For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.
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I love bolos levedos. I literally can't have a bag of them in my house because I'll eat them all in an hour.
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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.
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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
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Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.
