Carlson Gracie Quotes
Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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I love girl power.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
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I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'
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I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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Voters memories will fade some.
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Swami Apasthanand is still there, he is very old now, but I had gone to see him and stayed with him for quite some time. But it is a different world, why get into it here.
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Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.
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Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.
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Good and bad - this is the story of my life.
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For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.
