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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In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.
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I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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I assure you, that this inestimable memento of his Excellency will be retained in my possession while I live - an object of sacred interest - a token not merely of the kind consideration in which I have reason to know that the President was pleased to hold me personally, but as an indication of his humane interest in the welfare of my whole race.
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I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
