Margaret Carlson Quotes
The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.
Quotes to Explore
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
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Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
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When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard... his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves...
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The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.
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The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.
