Anne Carson Quotes
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
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My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy
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I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
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There will always be someone being picked on at school, and it's not going to go away.
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Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
