Allen Carr Quotes
The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.
Quotes to Explore
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
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Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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Officialdom needs to put you in a categorizing box, and if it cannot then it is free to make its own verdict upon your status.
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Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
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From a very young age, my father put a lot of fear in me and it worked. I think it's important for children to have fear. I never was curious about drugs or alcohol. I was born in 1960 and back then the older kids were smoking pot. I wasn't interested in that ever and I always had this thing in me, for some reason, that if God was kind enough to give me a healthy body and mind, I was not going to screw it up.
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To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.
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The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
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The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.
