Patrick Carney Quotes
I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
Quotes to Explore
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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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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Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the populations it relied on to make its wealth.
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I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.
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I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.
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I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
