Allan Carr Quotes

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

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• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
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• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  

  Karl Marx
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  • May
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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
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  • Me

• I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Life
  • Men
  • Political

• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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  • Islam
  • Ideology

• I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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  • Beatles
  • Tribute

• Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

  Ian Ziering
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• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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  • Joy
  • Depressing

• As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• My education was very tough.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

  

  Karl Rahner
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  • Hope
  • Beautiful

• O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Me

• Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

  

  Frank Knight
  • Rest

• Texas is a great program. The respect they gave me was amazing.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Amazing

• If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
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  • Children
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• There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.

  

  Derek Walcott
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• Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. Pilots generally take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle.

  

  Neil Armstrong
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• I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

  

  Allan Carr
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