Carol Ann Duffy Quotes
Here.It will blind you with tearslike a lover.It will make your reflectiona wobbling photo of grief.
Quotes to Explore
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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I have three young kids and a great family. I love hanging out with them more than anything.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
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Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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There are good characters and bad characters.
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A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
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The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
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I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
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Here.It will blind you with tearslike a lover.It will make your reflectiona wobbling photo of grief.
