Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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FreedomThinkFeelCareerNowRight

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

Jimmy Carter

GoodFaithRespectControlGunYou

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Jenny Nimmo

HopeChildrenImaginationFreeThink

If you believe that you can't do something, then you're not going to do it. If you believe you can, and you're willing to put in the effort and figure out a way to do it, then the majority of the time, you can.

Amy Purdy

TimeEffortBelieveYouWayOut

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

John Ridley

StupidSmilingYouI CanJazzWill

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

Amitabh Bachchan

EnjoyActorWorkingJustUseAny

You can't buy being a rock star.

Travis Scott

Rock StarYouRockBuyStarBeing

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

Miguel

PerspectiveCreativeIdeasSongPart

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

Mindy Grossman

PassionVisionTeamBuildingThink

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

Jay Samit

MeAngelEntrepreneurNothingMore

Whoever you're playing against, you want to do as well as you can.

Dele Alli

YouWantPlayingAgainstWell

I am part of the vibrant Catholic community in the D.C. area. The members of that community disagree about many things, but we are united by a commitment to serve.

Brett Kavanaugh

CommunityCommitmentI AmDisagree

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Ali Liebegott

LifeHappyBelieveMy LifePoor

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