Noel Carroll Quotes
Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.
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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.
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I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, 'I'm gonna change my life, I'm going legit. This is where I'm at.'
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'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'
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She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
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The world needs champions. Too many people still find the path to opportunity closed to them. Too many still find unnecessary obstacles to education, to housing, to the full and free exercise of the right to vote.
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I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.
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I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.
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Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.
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I live in the English countryside, so I'm surrounded by magpies.
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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rather than envy in the sense that the better my competition is, the more it forces me to work hard, focus, and be better myself if I want to succeed, which I do.
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'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
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I just follow my nose, and instead of letting someone run my affairs and probably make me wealthy within a matter of years, I've just kept the board of directors down to zero. I make all the decisions, and they can't all be right, and my lifestyle is very expensive, so that means I have to work a lot. It's the opposite side of the coin from sinking back into the recliner and becoming somebody they bury.
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I have no ambition to sell Williams . . . I have a baby on the way and I would love to think that in 25 years he could be running Williams.
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Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.
