Anne Carson Quotes
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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We finished up making a pair of boots and they were quite unique, but the fact that they were unique, one piece of leather moulded to make a boot, instead of a lot of pieces, took the imagination of the bush people and they became very popular with the bushmen who liked the idea of bush boots being made by a bushman for bushmen. It took on and, you know, from that there's been a million pairs sold or more, eh?
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If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.
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The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.
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To rebuild his personal trust he must get people feeling better about his performance.
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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
