Carson Cistulli Quotes
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After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
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The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a problem of immoral leadership. We have heard a lot about public morality and moral leadership in the last year. But very little of it focuses on the immoral conduct we're complaining about today.
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Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
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We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
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A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.
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A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
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The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.
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Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.
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Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.
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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.
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Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.
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I've never met a very memorable cobbler.
