Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.
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The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.
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The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
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I think there are a lot of hurdles between a normal consumer brand figuring out their mobile strategy - let alone their chat app strategy - and programming a Facebook Messenger chatbot.
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I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
