Carl Deuker Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
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'Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?'
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I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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My book is not for everyone in the venture capital and entrepreneurial world, and that’s okay. If you try to please everybody and worry about offending anybody, nothing is going to happen. You might make some money, but you certainly won’t create wealth.
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Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.
