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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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Carl Sandburg
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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
