Jonathan Carroll Quotes
Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
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Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.
