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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They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.
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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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What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.
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I'll tell you where the injustice is. It's with the person earning £12,000 to £15,000-a-year who is being asked to be restrained by their business or employer. Yet the taxpayer has bailed out the banks, so why are they not showing restraint?
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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All gunners were deaf, they said. They were the kings of the battlefield and they never heard the applause.
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You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.
