Anne Carson Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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I don't have lavish taste.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I love my garlic press; in fact, it is probably my one true desert island gadget. But I'm happy to put it aside whenever the smell and sweet taste of slow-cooked garlic is called for.
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I see myself as an arbiter of taste.
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O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
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There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
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You have to want to have taste. Some people have inherently bad taste. Their problem is really not the bad taste - that can be fixed - but that they don't know they have it!
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If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.
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Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
