Carrie Quotes - Page 18

• Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Different, Weight, Hebrew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of [Will Shawn].

  Nat Hentoff

  Character, Thinking, Dresses

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Boredom, Leaving

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• Every kid Grade 6 and up carries a cellphone - with that they can access the world. They are the most connected, aware generation that's ever existed.

  Eric Walters

  Kids, Generations, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

  David Eagleman

  Sex, Age, Identity

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.105, Vintage

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• I'm not a person who carries my emotions on my sleeve.

  Jay Leno

  Emotion, Sleeves, Persons

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.

  Amy Adams

  Religious, Lying, Impact

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

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• Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

  Henry Adams

  Travel, Taste, Inches

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 12

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• Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mom, Mother, Destiny

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• The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

  Roy Ayers

  People, True Beauty, Messengers

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• A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Suggestions

  "Aids to Scoutmastership: A Handbook for Scoutmasters on the Theory of Scout Training".

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• Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Age, Rereading

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• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Leadership, Being Strong

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.33

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• Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Life, Time, Fire

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• American Idol allowed us to find Carrie Underwood.

  Luke Bryan

  Idols, American Idol, Bryan

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• A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

  Richard Burton

  Men, Gold, Riches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

  Candace Bushnell

  Girl, Real, Book

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• A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

  Joseph Conrad

  Space, Flying, Bullets

  Lord Jim ch. 15 (1900)

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• If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

  Bill Cosby

  Integrity, Thinking, Speak Your Mind

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• From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Men, Free Diving

  Time magazine, March 28, 1960.

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• My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Dad, Father

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• Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

  Jacques Derrida

  Poetic, Methodology, Discourse

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

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• Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

  Brian Eno

  Messages, Rich, Certain

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• I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

  Paul Feig

  Class, Reunion, Incidents

  "Director Paul Feig Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 5, 2012.

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