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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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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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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If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.
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I love to talk about sports. I love sports; it's just something that's in my nature.
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I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
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Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
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Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
