Steve Carlton (Steven Norman Carlton) Quotes
I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
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The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
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There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
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Basically you’ve got to be yourself, and just three or four percent larger than life, that is it. That is my belief. That is if you have it, if you are successful. If you go a little over the top, then you are arrogant and pompous.
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A man really determines himself by what he does.
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I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.
