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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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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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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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
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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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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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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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My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a living. But for me, it was the only solution for the rest of my life.
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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Poetry is a form of necessary speech.
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A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.
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Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.
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Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.
