James Carville Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I know nothing about technology.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
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I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
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I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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My friends are my family.
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My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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Hospitality knows no gender or race.
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Campaigns are about adjustments.
