Carolyn Merchant Quotes
Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.
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I think it would be nice to see more of an open culture to different music.
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I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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I really am a woman at peace.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.
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Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
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You can't just come into someone's life, make them feel special, and then leave.
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Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.
