George L. Carlson Quotes
If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.
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Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
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I'd love to do a superhero movie, like a remake of Wonder Woman.
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Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay.
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Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.
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I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?
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I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").
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Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.
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I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.
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We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.
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For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.
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If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.
