Caroline Leavitt Quotes
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
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Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
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I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.
