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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Losing an election is very difficult. I've lost an election myself, and it was very difficult.
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The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
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It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.
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It's wrong to kill.
