Carolyn Forche Quotes
We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I'm very open-minded.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.
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I believe the classified section of a newspaper - especially the 'Business Opportunities' column - can tell you more about your city 'business-wise' than any other publication.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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Obit anus, abit onus.
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I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.
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For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
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The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!
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To the extent that animals continue to die needlessly, we are morally bound to speak.
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.
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Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.
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We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.
