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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I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.
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I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. So, I was jumping into it, and that was pretty grueling.
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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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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.
