Jennifer Carpenter Quotes

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

Jennifer Carpenter

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HomeWordsMeBookThinkLook

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

John Cage

MusicCultureBetterEntertainment

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

John Banville

WorkArtMyselfPeoplePresentKnow

If you're good to your body, your body's good to you.

Jermain Defoe

GoodYouBodyYour BodyYour

So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.

Andrew Kreisberg

LifeWomanGreenDestinyFeelDark

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Robert Owen

LawSocietyRationalCannotFound

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

VisionCreativeFightMeCrazyWill

I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

John Salley

BirdThinkMagicNextAgainstEver

It's not OK to fail. It's that things can fail and absolutely will go wrong - just keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.

Tosca Musk

TryingWrongGoWillThingsFail

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

Joy Harjo

TogetherSunMeaningEarthSacred

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

Christopher Alexander

GrowthBalanceProcessEnvironment

There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.

Brian Greene

UniverseBangsBigMayBeenOur

Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of.

Armando Iannucci

BusinessBecomeRightAwarenessLeft

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