Carl Gardner Quotes
Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.
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I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
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There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
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Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.
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What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
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I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
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Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.
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A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
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I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
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My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
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God is an iron... and that's a hot one.
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In Selma as elsewhere we seek and pray for peace. We seek order. We seek unity. But we will not accept the peace of stifled rights, or the order imposed by fear, or the unity that stifles protest. For peace cannot be purchased at the cost of liberty.
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And to his eyeThere was but one beloved face on earth, And that was shining on him.
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Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.
