Lewis Carroll Quotes

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

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• Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.

  

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• It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

  

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• Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

  

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• Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

  

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• Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

  

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• Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Writers
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• You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Who can control his fate?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Destiny
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• I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.

  

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• Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

  

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  • Slandering

• I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

  

  Hedda Hopper
  • Remember
  • Actors
  • Expression

• At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.

  

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• What you see is what you get.

  

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  • You
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• In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.

  

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  • Work
  • Unemployment
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• Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

  

  Keanu Reeves
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  • Fake
  • Pretend

• Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Pretend
  • Bone
  • Hyena