Liz Carpenter Quotes
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
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Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
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What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.
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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.
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I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
