Anne Carson Quotes
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.
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I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
