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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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
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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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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.
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I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar.
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As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'
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Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, "Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told." Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.
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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.
