Mary Chapin Carpenter Quotes
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I was always more interested in asking people about themselves than I was telling them about me.
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Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.
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Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.
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The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.
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The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.
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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says 'I want to do this song of yours' because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
