Carrie Jones Quotes
Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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I'm not a sex symbol.
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Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.
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Focus on the positives is what I teach my kids. The rest takes care of itself.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we've all gone through. It's the feeling after a one-night stand of not wanting that person to leave, even if you don't love them and don't even like them. It's about having that body next to you.
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Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.
