Carl Gardner Quotes

The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted.

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• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

  

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• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
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• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

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• We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

  

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• Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

  

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• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

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• I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

  

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• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  

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• When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Larry Gagosian
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• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

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• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

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• I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

  

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• What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

  

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• The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

  

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• I wanna live.

  

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• Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.

  

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• Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.

  

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• The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.

  

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• In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can't, I will lend you mine.

  

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• The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

  

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• I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

  

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• The music I wanted to get into when I went to California, was to, uh, get into, uh, pop, mostly. And the big band era was on at that time. I was doing the "Mona Lisa"s, the "Stardust"s, "Stars Fell On Alabama," all this kind of stuff. And that was my thing that I wanted.

  

  Carl Gardner
  • Kind
  • Band
  • Stars