Jim Carroll Quotes
Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.
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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.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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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.
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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.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't read much of anything online.
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I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.
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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.
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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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.
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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.
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Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
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You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
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A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
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The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
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My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.
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Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.
