David Carson Quotes
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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Critics tend to be very hard on the horror genre.
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I'm just having fun. I go in the studio, and I have no idea what I'm going to do, what I'm going to make. I'm going to make whatever I feel like making.
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That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.
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I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.
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Overall, people are reading less.
