James Carville Quotes
When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.
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Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I train for around 3-4 hours everyday. It can go up to 6-7 hours when a competition is approaching.
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Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
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Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.
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When you do good work, people will notice you.
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I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.
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Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.
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If you know what you're doing, you can make a meal happen with any kitchen knife. But using a top-quality knife versus a low-quality one is the difference between driving a Jaguar and a VW Jetta across the country. They'll both get you there. But the Jaguar will give you a much smoother ride.
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It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.
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Meetings are the linchpin of everything. If someone says you have an hour to investigate a company, I wouldn't look at the balance sheet. I'd watch their executive team in a meeting for an hour. If they are clear and focused and have the board on the edge of their seats, I'd say this is a good company worth investing in.
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Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy. Remember, the other day I gave you the example of what I mean, what the difference between fantasy and imagination is. I gave you the example of the man who invented the of the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking.
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When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
