Steve Carlton (Steven Norman Carlton) Quotes
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
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I want to have a long career.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.
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I feel good. Health-wise, I'm probably in better shape than I was a bunch of years before. Being a diabetic, I watch everything I eat. I feel great physically.
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For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
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Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!
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I’m still staring at that irritating NVA flag flapping in a wet breeze that blows over the river when the lull ends as it usually does in Hue. People resume dying.
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Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
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There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.
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I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.
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I've always been an incredibly physically capable human being. I've always had good control of my body, walk a hundred feet on my hands, jump off rock wall and do a back flip into the sand. That's always been who I am.
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Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
