Carolyn Hart Quotes
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
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For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.
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Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
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Happiness is a continuous creative activity.
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Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.
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The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.
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I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.
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As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
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Take risks in order to innovate.
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I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.
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Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!
