Joe Carnahan Quotes
Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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What I learned from my father is to think big.
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Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
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And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
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In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.
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Be open-minded and available to everything and not just saying it's Jesus Christ or bust. So much of the world will do that. I find it troubling... Don't be dogmatic.
