Caroll Spinney Quotes
I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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It's quite beyond my powers at my age, and yet I want to succeed in expressing what I feel.
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I like people. Listen, if you're a hotelier, if you're a creative person, and you're working with the things that I do, then you have to like people; otherwise, you simply can't get anywhere.
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I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
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I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.
