Jim Carroll Quotes
I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
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I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
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Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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If there's too much of you around, people can get tired of you.
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
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You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
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When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.
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I should have stayed an athlete, body well-tuned, cruising around with my accountant in a Porsche, maroon and chrome.
