Anne Carson Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.
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If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.
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The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.
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If people will pay to see it, I'll fight anyone in any sport.
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The past, he said. The past is too much with me. And the past has made me useless. I have too much to remember-so much to remember that it becomes more important than the things there are to do. I’m living in the past and that is no way to live.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
