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I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching.
Michelle Obama, one of my inspirations, said 'when they go low, we go high,' and it was a thing that I really carried with me.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
I think it's important not to get carried away when you are successful - and not to let yourself feel gloomy when times are bad.
If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
Gianni Agnelli was a sharp mind, and most of his interviews carried meanings between the lines that only now are fully readable.
We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.
If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.
I never went to a drama school or anything. I just gave it my best shot, and everyone seemed to like it, so I carried on doing it.
Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred.
The idea that the British carried out hundreds of war crimes in Iraq is, of course, utterly without foundation and grossly unfair.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign-born Arab hijackers, many assume that all terrorists who attack the West are foreigners.
I was born in March 1946, almost exactly 10 months after V-E Day, so I imagine my parents got carried away when peace was declared.
Martin Luther King, Jr. didn't carry just a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried the American flag.
Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.
I have an original voice. It may not be the best voice, but it's distinct, and I think that's what has carried me through the years.
The biggest players I've seen are the ones that take the wins well - don't get carried away with them - but the defeats really hurt.
Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.
Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.
So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that.
Carried interest... you're making money on somebody else's capital. It's not on your own. If that's not income, I don't know what is.
I did things right, I never got into any trouble. I was professional and I carried myself well and always did what I was asked to do.
One shouldn't get carried away by styling, as it can be a double-edged sword. The person should have it in him or her to carry it off.
What do we know about the diseases carried by illegal aliens? Not much, thanks to government secrecy, but we know enough to be worried.
The Pakistani Army, the Frontier Corps, the Frontier Scouts and Police have carried out quite impressive counter-insurgency operations.
You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.
I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried.
Jesus asks me to go to him when I am overburdened. He did not promise to take away those burdens, for I must carry mine as he carried his.
When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.
My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.
I got bullied so much at 11 and 12 that I became the bully. I didn't want to get bullied no more. And that just carried on through my life.
Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
I have carried the burden of being a role model for some time. And that's great. The body of work I've done has afforded me that opportunity.
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.
With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.
I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.
'Goodfellas' has kind of got it all. That was probably one of my favorite films as a kid, so I carried a picture of 'Goodfellas' in my wallet.