Carl Sandburg Quotes
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses. (p. 49)
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I try always to intimate with the world… with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
