Jonathan Carroll Quotes
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
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When you're younger, you feel like work is work and relationships are supposed to be easy. As you get older, you realize you have to work at relationships to make them sustainable.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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I entered KC College in 1975. When I came here for my interview, for my admission, every person I spoke to spoke to me in Sindhi. Be it Kundanani, Bhambani, Nichani, Kevalramani... and they also thought that Ambani was the same. For a moment, I thought that I got my admission at KC College because I have a 'ni' in my surname.
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I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
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I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.
