Lillian Gordy Carter Quotes
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
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A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
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Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
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Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.
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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
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When he let Kennedy use his column to send signals to Nikita Khrushchev, or lent his skill to Vandenberg to reinforce the anti-Soviet consensus in American diplomacy, he wasn't acting as a reporter but as a patriot. This urge may be a dereliction of duty in the journalist, but it is a sign of decency in the man. That the two impulses in journalism should so often be at odds — duty versus decency — tells us more about the trade than most of us care to know.
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If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
