John Caudwell Quotes
I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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“If I am going to invest in Russian gas, I should have a clear understanding that I can bring that gas to market.
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I didn't want my epitaph to read 'Here lies John Caudwell, billionaire.' I knew that wasn't enough. I've had a charitable instinct all my life, but working gave me no time for it.
