Caryl Rivers Quotes
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I love the smell of freshly cut grass. It takes me back to summers in Maine.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.
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I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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One of the differences between now and then is that the idea of body image is a much bigger issue now. Back then, just being kind of heavy and barrel-chested passed for heroic. Now, you wouldn't dare to play a hero without a lot of dieting and various specialised abdomen machines. But that was one of the things which was interesting about it and I did want to portray because there's good and bad.
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We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
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The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
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If God calls you, pick up the damn phone!
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The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.
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I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.
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Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.
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Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
