Caroline Buchanan Quotes
I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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History's a resource.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
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There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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I once spent an entire night in a hotel in New York looking across the way into someone's apartment where nothing was happening but daily life, a phone call, television watching, staring into the fridge. Seeing how those strangers lived over that small distance and in absolute silence moved me deeply.
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I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt tracks to the highest level.
