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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It's pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love - that was an incredible feeling. But there's something very distorting about that much attention. It felt like such a double-edged sword.
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In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.
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The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
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Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
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The impact of T.V. on our lives in general gets most things out of proportion.
