John Carpenter Quotes

From early on, when synthesizers were first introduced into music, I liked the idea that you could get a big sound with them, electronic, but like an orchestra. And I could play it all myself. That was exciting.

John Carpenter

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MusicMyselfYouEarlyPlayFirst

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

Jerry Doyle

GreatBabyGrowing UpGenerationUp

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas

CommunitySocietyJournalismResults

When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers.

Michael Dirda

LibraryLateBoy1950sRiceBooks

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Merle Shain

LifeLoveFearLove IsJoyLoving

In 1984, as a college freshman, I spent a fall weekend at a friend's house in suburban Chicago. His father worked for Beatrice Foods, a sponsor of the Chicago Marathon, and we watched that race from the finish line as a Welshman named Steve Jones set a new world marathon record. I was bewitched by the race and, especially, the clock.

Steve Rushin

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Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Tom Holt

LawyersGreyPredators

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

Mary McLeod Bethune

ArtistSeekCease

I watch 'Morning Joe' occasionally. I used to watch a lot more than I do now, but I watched it, and all of a sudden, there was this love fest, for crying out loud - this inexplicable love fest one morning - for The Donald.

Michael Keaton

LoveMorningNowMoreOutWatch

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

Jean Craighead George

HopePeopleWolvesThinkYoungOut

By definition, transnational crime crosses borders, but efforts to combat it mostly do not.

Jared Cohen

CrimeBordersCombatDefinition

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

Douglas Coupland

UniqueFeelingUniquenessIndication

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

Chris Lilley

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