Charles Evers Quotes
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
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You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.
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I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
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I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place.
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For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
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I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
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In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
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Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy
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When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?
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I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.
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I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
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Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
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Friends and I used to play an invented parlor game called the Worst Records Never Made. The point was to hypothesize the most stunningly inappropriate albums we could imagine—pairings of artists and material so horrific that even the famously dunderheaded major labels would hardly consider making them. Most of our inspirations have been lost to memory, but the notion of discs like “Yodel with the Berlin Philharmonic,” “The Three Tenors Sing Gilbert and Sullivan,” and—my favorite—“The Chipmunks Present Your Favorite Spirituals” can still inspire what P. G. Wodehouse used to call “the raised eyebrow.
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It's wrong to kill.
