Noel Carroll Quotes
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
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When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.
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We had a tough time narrowing it down to what we have.
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I love Mary very much. I love her family very much. This is just an issue in which we disagree.
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At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
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I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.
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The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.
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When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside.
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Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.
