Carolyn Wells Quotes
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.
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What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
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Τὸ δυσσεβὲς γὰρ ἔργονμετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει,σφετέρᾳ δ' εἰκότα γέννᾳ.
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All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.
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All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.
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It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been watching it every single Monday when with my wife. It was like a ritual - every Monday night on HBO Nordic, we would watch 'Game of Thrones' together.
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I understand and accept that for the people of Munich, only the treble will do.
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We live in an age of sound bites and buzz words.
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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
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It's a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That's what you should learn self-defense for.
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American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.
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Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.
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You face racism in small and large ways.
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As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.
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Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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The bad part about growing older is I'm going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.
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At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.
