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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Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
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The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
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Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
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When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so much that you dare to tell them about Jesus with no apologies, then never fear, there will be results.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
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I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions.
