Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments.
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I think there are some players born to play ball.
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I don't like to see players tossed off needlessly.
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I was the best.'
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It's a controversial segment, 'Watters World.' There's controversy around it.
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When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.
