James Carville Quotes
I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
Quotes to Explore
-
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
-
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
-
Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
-
I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
-
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
-
It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
-
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
-
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
-
I don't like to direct myself.
-
My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
-
I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
-
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
-
We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
-
If you never give up, you'll be successful.
-
Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
-
A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
-
I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
-
To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
-
I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.
-
Live simply so that others may simply live.
-
I've aged, but grown up? No.
-
The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.
-
I've had enough of the blowhards on cable TV and the self-righteous anger I hear from people whose only accomplishment in life is their ability to turn the dial on an AM radio.
