Liz Carpenter Quotes
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.
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Even the bad things are better than they used to be. Bad music, for instance, has gotten much briefer. Wagner's Ring Cycle takes four days to perform while 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by the Crash Test Dummies lasts little more than three minutes.
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I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.
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When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad.
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I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
