Charles Fleischer Quotes
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
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I loved being in a band.
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.
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There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
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Photographing a cake can be art.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.
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The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.
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For you, a thousand times over.
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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
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I like to say I believe in ghosts so I don't get haunted by one.
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I love to eat everything and you pretty much can - a little piece of something fattening is not going to kill you. It's when you eat the whole box that it's going to kill you.
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every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.
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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
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Life has many twists and turns.
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When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
