Edmund Snow Carpenter Quotes
History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
Quotes to Explore
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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 didn't aim at anything except good music.
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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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I'm a variety girl when it comes to different genres.
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I wished I could offer her tea. You don’t think about it, but all those little fusses we make over company have their purposes. They give us something to do with our hands and our anxiousness until everybody settles in and starts having fun.
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I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.
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Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews known as the holocaust, and nobody in the West enjoys the freedom of expression to deny it or raise doubts about it. But affronting the sanctities of about 1.5 billion Muslims is permissible in the West.
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
