James Carville Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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I have no nationality, no country.
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My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
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In the last couple of years I've been doing this sort of thing constantly, often repeating myself, becoming an avoidable Doomsday bore. But anything of importance - like a garden, a human relationship, a child, a religious faith, even the most convinced brand of atheism has to be worked on constantly if it is to survive.
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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
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The time is come when women must do something more than the 'domestic hearth,' which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
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We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.
