Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.
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Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
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I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.
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I love Journey and Fleetwood Mac.
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Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.
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No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
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I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.
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On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.
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Youth is truth.
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Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.
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I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.
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I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.
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We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking.
