Lewis Carroll Quotes
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm a composer, man.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.
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When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard.
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In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
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I'm just looking for projects I enjoy.
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I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
