James Carville Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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Just try to make people happy.
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Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
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The great Carlyle has said that the best gift God ever gave to man was an eye that could really see; I venture to add that an equally rare and not less important gift is the courage to tell what one sees.
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Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'
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We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
