Carl Orr Quotes

I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

Carl Orr

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• Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • City
  • Always
  • Early

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Gold

• My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Wife
  • Ideas
  • Nothing

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moment

• Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Maybe
  • Arena
  • Insecurities

• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Mistakes

• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Military
  • Texas

• I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Love
  • Art
  • Kids

• A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Organization

• I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Different
  • Know

• When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Years
  • Young
  • Maybe

• There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Play

• I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

  

  Gary Gygax

• Well, its not that bad. I thought she was going to show me a picture of uhhhh...an eagle on her ass or something.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • She
  • Bad
  • Picture

• The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Universe

• If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• The Greek people deserve an economy that is not burdened forever by a heavy bureaucracy and a bloated public sector.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • People
  • Forever
  • Greek

• There will be a Skype movie soon... someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there'll be 30 Skype movies, and we'll be like, 'Oh, that's boring.'

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Great
  • Movie

• I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

  

  Berti Vogts
  • Football
  • I Think
  • Plan

• The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Situations

• I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.

  

  Carl Orr
  • Help
  • Someone
  • Cure