Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
Plan your own vacations when you want to, and plan a suitable combined vacation with this other family when you want to. If they freak out at your planning your own vacations as you see fit, then let them. Bowing to unreasonable demands because someone will make you pay emotionally if you don't is not a healthy option.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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I find Hollywood really toxic.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
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But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.
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We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.
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The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
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I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
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Meanwhile, to consolidate a climate of benevolence, I tried to return to normal activities, like a sick person who has been in the hospital for a long time and, partly to overcome the fear of falling ill again, wants to reanchor himself to the life of the healthy.
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Plan your own vacations when you want to, and plan a suitable combined vacation with this other family when you want to. If they freak out at your planning your own vacations as you see fit, then let them. Bowing to unreasonable demands because someone will make you pay emotionally if you don't is not a healthy option.
