Billy Carter Quotes
I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.
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It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.
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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.
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I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose.
