Carson Palmer (Carson Hilton Palmer) Quotes
Every kid thinks about the Heisman Trophy and dreams about it, but you never think it could happen to you.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
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I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.
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I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.
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When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.
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When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
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Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels.
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I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
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Everyone is the keeper of a dream.
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Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Every kid thinks about the Heisman Trophy and dreams about it, but you never think it could happen to you.
