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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Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.
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I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.
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God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.
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Natural Selection is stern, but she has her tolerant moods.
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People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.
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Campaigns are about adjustments.
