James Carville Quotes
We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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As I say, if we bring up religion we’ll have differences; we’ll have arguments; and we’ll never be able to get together.
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Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.
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During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
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When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't involve money in a few chores, you lose the teachable moments in the work, spend, save, and give principles.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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It is not that something different is seen, but that one sees differently. It is as though the spatial act of seeing were changed by a new dimension.
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I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.
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And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.
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We don't know each other. Democrats don't know Republicans, Republicans don't know Democrats.
