Carolyn Chute Quotes
I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I'm not graceful.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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I don't think I was ever responsible for anything being canceled.
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I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.
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I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.
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Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can’t.
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I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.
