Allan Carr Quotes
A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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I like things simple.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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All of us grow.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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I've always liked lost, old New York.
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President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against the prophetically moral voice of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
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With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.
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A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
