Anne Carson Quotes
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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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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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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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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There are two different Donald Trump's. There's the one you see on the stage and there is the one who is very cerebral. He sits there and considers things very carefully. You can have a very good conversation with him. And that's the Donald Trump that you'll going to start seeing more and more of.
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My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.
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Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
