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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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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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
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What you put into it is what you're going to get out of it. If you're getting the chance to step into the octagon, you better be going full speed and give it everything you've got.
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Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.