Patrick Carney Quotes
The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
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I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.
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I'd really rather that nobody had a gun, and then nobody would have to worry about it. That would be more my theory. In America, there's this knee-jerk response that more walls and more guns make people safer, and I'm entirely suspect of that way of thinking.
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The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
