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James Carville Quotes

I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

James Carville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 25, 1944

Topics

Politics Thought Church Modern Pope

To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.

Jimmy Iovine

Life Service People Better You Pay

Mathematicians are always playing tricks on each other. They're always pulling jokes on each other.

Jeremy Irons

Always Jokes Playing Mathematicians

I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're ready to go.

Meg Wolitzer

Ideas Feel Ready Numbers Sometimes

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'

Jeff Ament

Love Basketball Play Go Say Trash

We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.

Mike Crapo

Freedom Responsibility Reality Gifted

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Monica Lewinsky

Man Me Feel Enough Feelings See

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.

Joshua Slocum

Sea Day Wind Waves Enough Said

There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.

Jason Moran

Good You Skills Want Jazz Your

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Dennis Miller

Global Warming Right Quilt Radical

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

Deepika Padukone

Business Job Luxury You Focused

When you're there and actually facing Natalie Dormer, it seems to go on for years.

Dean-Charles Chapman

You Go Years Seems Facing Actually

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Claire Tomalin

Music Time Words Poetry Treat Look