Carrot Top Quotes
I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
Quotes to Explore
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people talk.
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I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.
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I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.
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One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
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The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.
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I never stop working.
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At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.
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I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
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I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.
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Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.
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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.
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I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.
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I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.
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Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
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I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.
