Carol Shea-Porter Quotes
I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
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C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.
