Carrie Vaughn Quotes
A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
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My main interests this year were directed towards string theory of quark confinement. The problem is to find the string Lagrangian for the Faraday's `lines of force',which would reproduce perturbative corrections from the Yang-Mills theory to the Coulomb law at small distances and would give permanent confinement of quarks at large distances.
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A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.
