Anne Carson Quotes
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God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.
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The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
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We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.
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I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
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He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.
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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.
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When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
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I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
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My wife and I are always concerned about how long it's going to take to eat out. You just don't know.
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We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.
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He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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Consider incompleteness as a verb.
