Careful Quotes - Page 26

• One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Voice, Challenges

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• The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Science, Men, Common

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• Let our lives be firmly rooted in Truth. Abstain from lies. In this dark age of materialism, adherence to truth is the greatest austerity. We might have to tell lies now and then to protect somebody or to sustain dharma, but we must be careful not to speak lies for our own selfish purposes.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Lying, Selfish

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• Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Eye, Poison

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• If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.

  John Burroughs

  Wine, Winter, Vintage

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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  Be careful of the ones that always wanna get you high, cause when the time comes, that one'll let you die.

  DMX

  Friendship, Causes, Be Careful

  Song: Angel, Album: ...And Then There Was X

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• The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Office, Posts

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• Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

  Nicholson Baker

  Wikipedia, Facts, Incredibles

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

  Hume Cronyn

  Cutting, Weakness, Planning

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• A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

  Olive Schreiner

  Marriage, Beautiful, Love Is

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• Longevity is something I never gave a second thought to. I guess it's the shadow of growing up in post WWII, but I never believed I would live past 20. Here I am though... a senior citizen... my voice and heart are stronger than ever, but boredom is the greatest enemy so I have to be careful not to slip over the edge.

  Eric Burdon

  Senior, Growing Up, Heart

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• Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Age, Chance, Abandon

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• The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

  Mark Russell

  People, Meat, Want

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• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Middle East, Matter, Be Careful

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• People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Leadership, People, Mouths

  "Anna Deveare Smith Tackles Health Care". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 26, 2009.

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• I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.

  Michael Azerrad

  Home, Writing, Hands

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• I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

  Brooke Burns

  Children, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

  Chris Crutcher

  Book, Use, Be Careful

  Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 200.

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• It's not like I don't want to play the guy next door. But sometimes they're not the best written or the most complicated. But I am very, very particular about my bad boys. There are certain types of characters I will not play. I've said no so many times to so many parts that are just way too dark. You have to be careful.

  Kim Coates

  Character, Dark, Boys

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• So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Hanging Out, Wrong Things, Has Beens

  "High School Musical Starring Frances Bean Cobain" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 8, 2008.

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• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Self, Views, Political

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

  Warwick Davis

  Years, Looks, Gone

  Interview with Christopher Carle, www.ign.com. April 11, 2012.

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• I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.

  Maggie Grace

  Eye, Water, Contact

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• I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Heart, Trying, Persuasive

  "Q&A – Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Brother, Kids

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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