Anne Carson Quotes
Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
Quotes to Explore
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions.
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Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
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Most businesses believe regulators intend to fine them rather than help them protect their workers. Serious violations should bring real consequences, but minor violations should only incur warnings that encourage compliance.
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Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
