Anne Carson Quotes
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing.
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I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.
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My mind is my biggest asset. I expect to win every tournament I play.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
