Anne Carson Quotes
Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.
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The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
