Carleton Young (Carleton Scott Young) Quotes
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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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.
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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.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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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.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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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.
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Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.
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I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.
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I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
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When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.
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I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.
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Shoot for the stars. You may not get the stars-but you may get the moon.
