Jerrod Carmichael Quotes
If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Elves are cool, man.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.
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If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
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The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.
