Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes
I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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If you go to prison, your child support adds up.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.
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I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.
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On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.
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I think living well is the key: trying not to build up regrets for the things we didn't do in our lives; to try to live a regret-free life in which we feel satisfied in what we're doing; and to try to be kind to ourselves and not disappointed in ourselves.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
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Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new to my generation. There's an effort to value the evidence of the hand and the handmade thing while also acknowledging the way in which the making of things with hands has such a complex, alienated place in our culture.
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This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.
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I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.
