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 have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.
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Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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We're picking on people we can beat.
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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.
