Carolyn Crane Quotes
Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.
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I love '80s horror.
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There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.
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when the bank calls: 'Chase Bank, I'm self-employed, how long do you want to stay on the phone?'
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Girls seem to get me in trouble a lot of times.
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You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.
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Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.
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I look around this room and see a room full of senators, maybe one or two judges. A Conservative government will give jobs to people in other parties only after I've been prime minister for fifteen years and can't find a single living, breathing Tory to appoint.
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The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
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Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.
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Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.
