Carolyn Mackler Quotes
While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
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But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
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I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.'
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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It is very important that people start back to work, especially those in public service.
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Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
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Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?
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While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.
