Johnny Carson Quotes
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.
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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
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The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.
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'Everybody thinks they’re doing the right thing, kid. All the time. It’s about the only rule that explains how fucked-up this universe is.' A wan smile crept across her face. 'Nobody is a villain in their own head, are they? We all know we’re doing the right thing, which is why we’re in this mess.'
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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
