Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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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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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
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We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America - out of 435, I'm 422.
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Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
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It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.
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I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
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I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.
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I watch way too much television and like a lot of shows, so I'm always excited to meet those people and hope they're not douchey.
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But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.
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We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.
