Carson Palmer (Carson Hilton Palmer) Quotes
So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.
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But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
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Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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I am an athlete, and I focus more on the issues that concern me: training, perform, eat, sleep.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
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I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
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We had to go on the road and dig some games out. In certain areas, we gave ourselves an opportunity. But the bottom line is the area that we said we had to control to win we didn't. That was taking away the three from them.
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So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.
