Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes
It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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I wholly promote the omelette as a meal whatever the occasion, especially your last one.
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This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
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My niggas stack their money just to spend it'Cause, when you die, you cannot take it with you
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It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by his characters. They resist him, they are not easy to live with.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn’t it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
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I know how to win people over if things aren't going my way.
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We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.
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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
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It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.
