Christine Caine Quotes
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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Everyday rape incidents are being highlighted as if the entire state has become the land of rapists. Rape is sought to be glorified by these people. This will not be tolerated by people. I would like to say that negative journalism only destroys and it is time to champion positive journalism.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
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People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
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There's no point in living in an alternate reality.
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When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.
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It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
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I want to play Keith Richards.
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We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.
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For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and so forth, and yet the reality is, during this period, although there were these awful conflicts, the overall number of wars had gone down.
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Bad people are intriguing!
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
