Carrie Jones Quotes
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We strivin' for perfection.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.
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Cities are about juxtaposition.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.
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Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?
