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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There`s a great difference of running for president and being president. I think that deer in the headlights look in President-elect`s Trump face when he was going in and out of a meeting with our president said that, that he does see it`s different now, but he doesn`t seem to think it`s different enough.
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What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.
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People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that's eating adult rabbits, and needs quite a bit of room and quite a bit of heat. That's the animal that gets put in the back of a pick-up truck and dumped into the Florida Everglades or the city lake, or just left on a doorstep - again, it's quite often the animal that suffers.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
