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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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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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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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
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The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.
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I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.
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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.
