Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.
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When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
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I'm always preparing for a regular life.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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I've always thought 'Southern Accents' would make an amazing country song. It's always spoken to me. I've always loved it. Every time I hear that song, it reminds me of my dad.
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The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.
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Never stay with friends or relatives. You end up living on their schedules.
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Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.
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I care about my legacy.
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So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the sort of person who takes drinks away from people at the end of a party.
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Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.
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To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.
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Style is besides the point. Nobody would pay attention if one always said the same thing, in the same words and the same tone of voice.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'
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When I first did The Tracey Ullman Show, there were times when I could offer a solution on stage, and I could understand the writers.
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People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
