J. Carter Brown Quotes
I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
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My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
