Jerrod Carmichael Quotes
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
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When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.
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Everything in this life is only a glimpse of the real thing. Love, beauty, pleasure, even pain in its true essence is only in the next.
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I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.
