Carleton Young (Carleton Scott Young) Quotes
Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.
Carleton Young
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Eckhart Tolle
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We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
Zach Galifianakis
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
B. F. Skinner
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
V. S. Pritchett
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
Yolandi Visser
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I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
Adam McKay
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
Dan Phillips
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I will send a strong message that Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security and that we don't find nuclear weapons acceptable as Iran is currently envisioning it.
Barack Obama
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
Hans Frank
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What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
Galileo Galilei
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I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life.
Dalai Lama
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The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.
David Ignatius
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I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.
Chelsea Handler
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Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.
Carleton Young
