Carolyn Cooke Quotes
Nobody needs to be taken to Hell to experience it. We just grow despair inside the soul until it becomes a world in and around a human.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.
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The president said some words, like nouns and verbs. 15
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Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it.
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Christian philosophers have found no difficulty in justifying imperialism, war, the capitalist system, the use of torture, the censorship of the press and ecclesiastical tyrannies of every sort, from the tyranny of Rome to the tyrannies of Geneva and New England.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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Nobody needs to be taken to Hell to experience it. We just grow despair inside the soul until it becomes a world in and around a human.
