#carrie

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it. ↗

— Vera Wang

#body #carried #dancing #design #how

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. ↗

— Vera Wang

#against #although #always #anyone #better

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#clearly #disaster #false #iraq #out

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#i #optimist #who

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#been #before #carried #century #character

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#carried #charge #come #covering #electric

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#carried #childhood #held #his #hurt

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us! ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#being #carried #doubt #good #heaven

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

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