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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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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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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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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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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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.
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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'.
