Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, 'You're so real.' Even if my journey isn't exactly like theirs.
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I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
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I dedicate this light tower to John Lennon my love for you is forever yoko ono October 9th 2007
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For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.
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I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things.
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My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.
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All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.
