Anne Carson Quotes
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I miss baseball.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
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In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, then children are somewhat closer to our roots as primates in the arboreal forest. Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights. All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.
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I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.
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You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
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It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
