Charles Hazlewood Quotes
There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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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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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I like my cheese, I like my milk in my coffee, and nobody's gonna tell me any different.
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Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.
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Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.
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Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.
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There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
