Edmund Snow Carpenter Quotes
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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When I got home from The Ozzfest in September 2000 with Methods... I just locked myself in my house and I started writing.
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I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.
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If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.
