Jasper Carrott Quotes
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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I have only one sister, Asha Nanda, and she lives in Maharani Bagh.
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I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.
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I have patterned myself after my father and God.
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I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.
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Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.
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You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.
