Carson McCullers Quotes
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.
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The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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I'm not a vampire movie fan, per se. That's not to say that I haven't enjoyed movies with vampires in them.
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Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.
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I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.
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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
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Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.
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An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.
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Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
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I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
