Carlene Carter Quotes

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

Carlene Carter

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• I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Man
  • Son

• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Live
  • Disease

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Tolerant

• I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Science
  • Discipline

• I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Try
  • Ahead

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Die
  • Child
  • Losing

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• We've never been anti-Semitic.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Never
  • Been
  • Anti-Semitic

• What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Strong
  • Honor
  • Sense

• Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Different
  • United States
  • Russia

• For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Women
  • Attitude

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Love
  • War
  • Suffering

• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Music
  • School
  • Pretty

• I want finally to thank Londoners for their solidarity. There are some places in the world where such an incident would have unleashed internal strife and physical violence. London has stood together, we haven’t had any problems of the sort you might see in other parts of the world and I think it says everything about what is right about this city.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • World
  • Together
  • City

• I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Different
  • Family