Carrie Jones Quotes
…Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
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I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
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Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
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Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet, divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvoaequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
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But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from anything, not from a single blow. Surely the reckoning will be made after the passing of this cloud. We are the people without tears, straighter than you … more proud...
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My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.
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One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
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President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don't support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.
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Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.
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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
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The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.
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The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.
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You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.
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…Sometimes there are things that people should be afraid of." "Like the dark?" She shook her head. "No, more the absence of light.
