Edward Hallett Carr Quotes
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
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I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.
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A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.
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Change is certain. Progress is not.
