Edmund Snow Carpenter Quotes
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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I am married.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.
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I'm an athlete who took the sport to another level. I don't get or ever got the respect from people.
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Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it's quite controlled.
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I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that's all. You sang other people's songs. That's all there were.
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There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.
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I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.
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I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
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Crazy diets, good diets, you can't name one I didn't do.
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
