Austin Carlile Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.
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He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.
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There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to Heaven.
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Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.
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I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.
