Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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Whenever I use an uncommon word, I try to indicate its meaning within the text.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts.
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I like to refer to myself as 'The George Clooney of the Lane Bryant set.'
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In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.
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Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
