Steve Carlton (Steven Norman Carlton) Quotes
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.
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She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
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You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.
