Carol Leifer Quotes
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities well in advance of the times, which were characterized by very restricted methods. This was how the superb pyramid of K2 surfaced once more in the list of my projects. But I chose K2 as a way for giving concrete form to my new concept of mountaineering: to climb the second highest mountain in the world solo, alpine style, and without oxygen.
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The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.
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We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.
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Kabul is a walled city, which sounds romantic except the walls are pre-cast reinforced concrete blast barriers, 10 feet tall and 15 feet long and moved into place with cranes. The walls are topped with sandbags, and the sandbags are topped with guard posts from which gun barrels protrude.
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When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.
