Patrick Carman Quotes

Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

Patrick Carman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1966

Topics

LoveCommunityPeopleFastImportant

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

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When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

John Tesh

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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

John Updike

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Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.

Ana Navarro

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As a youth, I was much more of a Zionist. But Israel was very different then. Israel's changed, and so have I.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Tony Blair

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Being a WWE performer and doing all the different things we get to do, it can wear on you, and you can learn a lot of stuff about yourself. For me, it always reminds me to just stay humble. Just be yourself, love what you do, and enjoy the ride.

Roman Reigns

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When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school, and affluent Cologne. My host family, the lovely Schumachers, always had an opulent array of grapes on the table; they were better dressed than anyone I knew in Britain.

Luke Harding

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What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

Louie Schwartzberg

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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

Jonathan Sacks

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The problem with me and TV shows is once I start watching them, I have to watch them all because I'm so impatient. I need the entire series to be on TV, and then I'll sit all day and watch the entire thing. So I did that with 'Homeland,' and I did that with 'Veep.'

Jonathan Anderson

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I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

Persis Khambatta

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