Reeve Carney Quotes
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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I like performing in front of big crowds.
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
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Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.
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When I was young I used to listen to everything.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.
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I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
