Rae Carson Quotes
When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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My health is fine.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
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I don't marry myself to one belief system.
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Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
