Carol Tavris Quotes
We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.
Quotes to Explore
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same.
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I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.
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If you try to stay young forever, you don't really live.
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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.
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When I saw the 2010 Games and speed skating, I had a change of heart. I had always dreamed of being an Olympian, and something clicked inside of me. I knew I had to move to Salt Lake City and make this dream a reality.
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We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.
