Carole King Quotes
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
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If you use up your strength to excess in karate training, this will cause you to lose the energy in your lower abdomen and will be harmful to your body. Your face and eyes will turn red. Be careful to control your training.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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Only love is real...everything else is illusion
