Jim Carroll Quotes

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

Jim Carroll

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• You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

  

  Ice T
  • Kind
  • Hip Hop
  • DJ

• Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Immigration
  • Form
  • Flattery

• In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Politics
  • Build

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Want

• Music is like my security blanket.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Security
  • Blanket

• If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Serious
  • Ethics

• If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Real
  • Giving
  • Support

• Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Dance

• I don't read much of anything online.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Read
  • Anything
  • Online

• I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Surgery
  • Studied
  • Area

• One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Positive
  • Story

• You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Stronger

• My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Bored
  • Nervous
  • Interests

• I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Said

• Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Law

• Faust klagt über die zwei Seelen in seiner Brust; ich beherberge aber eine ganze Menge, die sich zanken. Es geht da zu wie in einer Republik... Das meiste, was sie sagen, teile ich mit. Es sind da aber auch ganze Provinzen, in die ich nie einen andern Menschen werde hineinsehen lassen.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Breakup

• I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Fashion

• We don’t really want to know what soldiers go through in combat. We do not really want to know how many children are being molested and abused in our own society or how many couples—almost a third, as it turns out—engage in violence at some point during their relationship. We want to think of families as safe havens in a heartless world and of our own country as populated by enlightened, civilized people. We prefer to believe that cruelty occurs only in faraway places like Darfur or the Congo. It is hard enough for observers to bear witness to pain. Is it any wonder, then, that the traumatized individuals themselves cannot tolerate remembering it and that they often resort to using drugs, alcohol, or self-mutilation to block out their unbearable knowledge?

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Relationship
  • Pain

• What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • American
  • Revolution
  • Promise

• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Business
  • Together
  • Painting

• Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

  

  Jim Carroll