Anne Carson Quotes
A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
Quotes to Explore
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that it seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.
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I've gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.
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I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.
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Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.
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I'm a deeply boring person in real life; I don't do any drinking and going out until four in the morning. I'll usually head straight home for a cup of tea.
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Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
