Chuck Close Quotes
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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I wouldn't mind an original letter from Napoleon to Josephine - in the early days, his letters arrived torn to pieces because he was overwhelmed by his passion for her.
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The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real for everyone. I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.
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A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
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We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
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All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.
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Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.
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If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
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I like to think about the bestseller list as, "This is the medicine cabinet of a very sick country." Let me look and see what they're reading that isn't nourishing them.
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We're all building our narratives in our heads.
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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
