Alice Cary Quotes
Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
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I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.
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Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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I really feel like the proper representation of women, in TV and film, is really important and vital.
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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
