Caroline Llewellyn Quotes
There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
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There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'
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When it's colder, your skin needs more attention.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.
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There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
