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 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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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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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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Thank you all very much for coming out today.
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I have a desk that I can raise or lower according to the state of my aching back. Sometimes I stand at it, and sometimes I have it high up to write at and sometimes a bit lower to type.
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I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.
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People don't always want to have females as leaders.
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What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
