Jonathan Carroll Quotes
I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.Jonathan Carroll
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
Kate Burton -
By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
Edmund Morgan -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
Manute Bol -
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck -
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
Fareed Zakaria
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
Iggy Pop -
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
Rachael Harris -
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't eat any red meat.
Taylor Momsen
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
Pat Conroy -
I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
Ian Hislop -
I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
Walter Dean Myers -
Acting's boring.
Ian McShane -
There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.
Mel Watt -
Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
Warren Farrell -
It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.
Matt Damon -
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir -
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
Immanuel Kant -
I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.
Jonathan Carroll