Charles Fillmore Quotes
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
Quotes to Explore
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.
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Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.
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Marco Rubio announced he's running for president. Fun fact: Marco Rubio's wife is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader. In other words, she knows how to generate fake enthusiasm for someone who's not going to win.
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Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why.
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Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
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Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
