Jan Karon Quotes

So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

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• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

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• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

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• When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

  

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• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

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• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

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• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

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• It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

  

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• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

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• The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

  

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• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  

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• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

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• People work hard.

  

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• I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

  

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• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

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• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

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• We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

  

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• As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

  

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• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

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• Some people say to be an actor you've got to die to do it. I think it's healthy if you think, 'I'll do it if it works, and if I don't, I can do something else.' That way seems to work for me.

  

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• I don't care where I sit in terms of hierarchy, box office takings, or any of that stuff.

  

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• Listen, it is absolutely clear the economy is not doing fine. That's the reason I had a press conference. That's why I spent yesterday, the day before yesterday, this past week, this past month, and this past year talking about how we can make the economy stronger. The economy is not doing fine.

  

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• So here is what my advice would be: If God has given you a dream, you'd better get cracking because He wants you to use it. That's why He gives them to us in the first place.

  

  Jan Karon
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