Jonathan Carroll Quotes
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape.
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For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.
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I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
