Carl Orr Quotes
Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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I buy way too many books.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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Judi Dench and Ian McKellen taught me how to work hard and respect the theatre.
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Retail businesses have narrow margins. If you cut off a flow of young consumers, it's only a matter of time before the businesses struggle and fail.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.
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Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
