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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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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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 was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
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The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.
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I just believe that the cost of marketing is going to increase and the cost of delivery is going to decrease as the Net gets stronger and mass media gets weaker.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.
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I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.
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I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.
