Caroline Llewellyn Quotes
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
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On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.
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Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
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When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
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My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the wood stove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.
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Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?
