Austin Robert Carlile Quotes
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.
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Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.
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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
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I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
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I'm more of a Tea Party person.
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You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
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Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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And usually the philosopher philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.
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My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention.
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Be your own person because no one can take that away from you.
