Anne Carson Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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I don't know if I like getting hit, but I try to draw contact.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.
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Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
