Carson McCullers Quotes
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.
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Ita res accendent lumina rebus.
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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile
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…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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I don't see how a woman in documentary photography could have children. I think it's a very difficult thing to do to raise a family, and I have enormous respect for people who do it. I'd hate to do something like that and not be good at it.
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But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.
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Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.
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I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
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Entrepreneurship is one of the most important drivers for job creation. Moreover, social entrepreneurship offers not only a path for young people to transform their own lives, but also a way to empower others.
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
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Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
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We begin again to structure the primordial feelings...from which 3000 years of literacy divorced us. We begin again to live a myth. (p. 17)
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
