Jasper Carrott Quotes
I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
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They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics.
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Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.
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I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.
