Carson Kressley (Carson Lee Kressley) Quotes

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

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• Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.

  

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• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

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• I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.

  

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• What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

  

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• Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

  

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• The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

  

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• All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

  

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• I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

  

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• Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

  

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• I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.

  

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• Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

  

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• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

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• I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

  

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• I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.

  

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• It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

  

  Carson Kressley
  • Different
  • Important
  • Problem