Edmund Snow Carpenter Quotes
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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I am married.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
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I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.
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The fact that we walked away from the Middle East, as distasteful as it was for us to stay involved and prevent wars, based on our long involvement there, we have helped to create and provide a foundation. Obviously for ISIS and also for the absolute barbarianism and human catastrophe that Assad impacted on his people.
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I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words.
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
