Carl Magnusson Quotes
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
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Innovation is a unique combination of existing ideas
