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So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.


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ANGELA CARTER A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
CARTER GLASS The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her a...
ANGELA CARTER In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
ANGELA CARTER There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any ...
STEPHEN CARTER Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your...
ANGELA CARTER Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
ANGELA CARTER This nation has dehumanized its adversaries calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.
JIMMY CARTER I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I wil...
JIMMY CARTER If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...
JIMMY CARTER You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
ROSALYNN CARTER Even people who aren't sick may not have optimal wellness.
BRIAN CARTER I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any pr...
BRIAN CARTER Your lifestyle - how you live, eat, emote, and think - determines your health. To prevent disease, y...
BRIAN CARTER I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those...
CARTER HEYWARD We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there wit...
ANGELA CARTER