Carl Gardner Quotes
I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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For me, juicing isn't about binging and cleansing; I try to incorporate it into a balanced diet.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I'm for prayer in schools.
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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
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When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.
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Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
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By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
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I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.
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Over the years, advertising had become very lazy, very visual. Visuals are important, yes, but as a part of the story.
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The books were a private part of me that I carried inside and guarded and didn't talk to anybody about; as long as I had the books I could convince myself I was different from the others and my life wasn't quite as stupid and pointless.
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The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.
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I did not want vocal groups. I was not interested in singing with a group because there's too much problem with groups in the first place.
