Carson McCullers Quotes
The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
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When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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I love Twitter. As an entertainer, it's a way to connect with the fans, and I think that's important.
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The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.
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Yep, I jumped from college to the ABL, just in time for the league to go under.
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By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
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The next Led Zeppelin is playing somewhere, and they'll likely never make it because there's no infrastructure for it. They'll never get a chance.
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.
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My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.
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I think 'GoodFellas' is just a perfect film. From an efficiency of storytelling standpoint, from an entertainment standpoint, from a performance standpoint, from a use of music standpoint, from a cinematography and editing standpoint - to me, it's just a perfect movie.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
