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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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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Margaret Thatcher assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.
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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.
