James Carville Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
-
I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
-
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
-
I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
-
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
-
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
-
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
-
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
-
I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things.
-
I've had times where I've joked, like, 'I'm going to move to Vermont and become a painter.' And sometimes that joke felt like, 'Oh that's a good idea.' But it was only, like, a daydream for a moment to, like, escape.
-
Word of mouth is everything.
-
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
-
The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops.
-
Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
-
Πολλῷ γ' ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυςἢ σαυτόν. ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι.
-
Imagination comes of not having things.
-
When I was younger, I just wanted to be a singer.
-
I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.
-
Although it's depressing to admit this, more than a handful of post-'Donnie Brasco' Al Pacino roles would have been better served by Steve Buscemi.
-
It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.
-
I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
-
We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
-
In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.
-
If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
