Charles Fleischer Quotes

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

Charles Fleischer

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• If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Promise
  • Public
  • Officials

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
  • President
  • Successful
  • Skin

• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Success
  • Girl
  • Moral

• I loved being in a band.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Band
  • Being
  • Loved

• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Event
  • Foreign Policy

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Laura Robson
  • World
  • End
  • Tennis

• 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.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • Bad
  • House

• 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.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Write

• I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Comfort
  • Preppy
  • Sweats

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Photographing a cake can be art.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Art
  • Cake
  • Photographing

• I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Myself
  • Television
  • Seeing

• Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Greatness

• I have great sympathy with America. It's very, it's very tough to be the only remaining superpower in the world.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • World
  • Great
  • America

• The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Mother

• Taking this view of the matter, the Anarchists contend that defence is not an essential of the State, but that aggression is.

  

  Benjamin Tucker

• America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

  

  Colin Fletcher
  • Myself
  • Found
  • Pressure

• I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Simple

• If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • Great
  • America

• When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

  

  Charles Fleischer