Carl Kasell Quotes
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Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
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A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
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Getting older and adjusting to all the things that biologically happen to you is not easy to do and is a constant struggle and adjustment.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
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You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
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We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.
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If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.
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I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
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We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
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I take a nap in the afternoons, and I'm in bed at 9 P.M. It's a struggle sometimes.
