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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.


Carl Barks

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CARL ROGERS The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
CARL ROGERS When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
CARL ROGERS In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this p...
CARL ROGERS In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, wi...
CARL ROGERS If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
CARL REINER I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't...
CARL REINER Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
CARL REINER A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a ...
CARL REINER Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
CARL REINER The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
CARL REINER I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
CARL REINER It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
CARL REINER At the time, there were very few foreign names in the press and they were all factory workers. I tho...
CARL RAKOSI Friends are not made, but recognized.
CARL RAKOSI I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
CARL RAKOSI If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
CARL PERKINS After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood....
CARL PERKINS That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
CARL PERKINS I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don...
CARL PALADINO I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
CARL PALADINO All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of O...
CARL PALADINO I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous ef...
CARL PALADINO I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Te...
CARL PALADINO I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the c...
CARL PALADINO If you're a citizen of the State of New York, your kid has as much a right as another kid to an ...
CARL PALADINO Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, t...
CARL PALADINO When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate ...
CARL PALADINO