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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My imagination is a twisted place.
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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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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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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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I don't want to be doing fashion shoots and being interviewed about where I shop. Who cares?
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Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.
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I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
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As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
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When I was young I used to listen to everything.
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
