Anthony J. Carson Quotes
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts.
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Displays of force in response to mostly peaceful demonstrations can be counterproductive.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.
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The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.
