Carmelo Anthony Quotes
I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.
Quotes to Explore
-
We continue to be bullish on China.
-
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
-
There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.
-
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
-
Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
-
Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
-
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
-
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
-
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
-
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
-
I'm not a control freak.
-
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
-
I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
-
Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
-
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
-
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
-
I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
-
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
-
Everything that wasn't invented by God is invented by an engineer.
-
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
-
I started my first business out of my college dorm room - DJ Connection - and grew it to more than 4,000 events per year. Sounds easy, but while doing that, I made every mistake in the book.
-
I've done routes where I've climbed 200 feet off the ground and just been, like, 'What am I doing?' I then just climbed back down and went home. Discretion is the better part of valor. Some days are just not your day. That's the big thing with free soloing: when to call it.
-
It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
-
I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.
