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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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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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 didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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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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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
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I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
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I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
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What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
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Thanks for the advice, but it never pays to run from a bully. That would only endanger whoever I chose to stay with.
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No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.
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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.
