Lillian Gordy Carter Quotes
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.
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The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
