Anne Carson Quotes
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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Should there be a question of returning or Of death in memory’s dream? Is spring a sleep?This warmth is for lovers at last accomplishing Their love, this beginning, not resuming, this Booming and booming of the new-come bee.
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And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.
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I ain't ever satisfied.
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If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.
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A woman needs to enjoy life a little bit more. Needs to think about family, needs to think about kids.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
