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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For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.
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I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway.
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The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
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I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
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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.
