Carole Nelson Douglas Quotes
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
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Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
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What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
