Anne Carson Quotes
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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Do we police because we fear we can be savages? Do our barricades from each other belie the blinds that keep us strangers to ourselves?
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We are numb in our new electric world as the native involved in our literate and mechanical culture. (p. 16)
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There is no person without a world.
