Allan Carr Quotes
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I hate competition.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
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I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.
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If you can't get up in the morning and laugh at yourself, don't get out of bed.
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You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
