Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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It's not about the money with me.
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Cricket is my first love.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Government is not show business.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.
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Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
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Civilization? I'll stay right here in the Congo!
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I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.
