Carl Gardner Quotes
Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Love is more than one thing.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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I love Indian food, and my favourite dish is dal rice.
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I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.
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When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?
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Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.
