James Carville Quotes
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
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People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.
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Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.
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I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
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You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].
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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
