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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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
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Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.
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My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.
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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.
