Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.
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When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches.
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I'm the king of the world!
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Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
