Jon Carroll Quotes
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
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Because you’d be running after your own unhappiness.
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If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.
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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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As quoted in 'Ann Slanders' by Steve Rendall in Extra! (November/December 2002).
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I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.
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My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
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In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest of the world is not only a luxury, in the way that travel is, but actually a moral responsibility.
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It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.
