Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'
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Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
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Think about the possibility: why is it that iPhones and iPads advance far faster than the health tools that are available to you to help take care of your family?
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I am a strong supporter of President Obama and was the first national Hispanic elected official to endorse him, and I want him to be reelected in 2012.
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People said, 'MySpace is going to rule and dominate all Internet; all young people will live on MySpace.' Well, along comes Facebook. And, obviously, all the innovation that Apple is doing.
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If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.
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If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You'd have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I'm easy to please.
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
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My own mind is my own church.
