Carl Sandburg Quotes
There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I did a movie called 'The Hole' with this kid Nathan Gamble, so when I'm old and wrinkly, he could play me. He's awesome.
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A lot of times when people become successful, people don't really understand what they had to do or the sacrifices they made to do that, or they assume that they had money. This is coming from, like, a kid who was broke and lived with roaches and a single mom in Dorchester.
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Through my work with CBBC, I have been seriously committed to encouraging young people to get outdoors and to engage with wildlife not just around the country but also right on their doorstep.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
