Carl Gardner Quotes
Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.
Quotes to Explore
-
A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
-
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.
-
I always wanted to be a mom.
-
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-
I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
-
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.
-
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
-
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
-
As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.
-
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.
-
As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
-
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
-
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
-
There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
-
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
-
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.
-
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
-
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.
-
I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
-
The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing.
-
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
-
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit.
-
Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.
