Jim Carroll Quotes
These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I hate competition.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.
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The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.
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If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.
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These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.
