Charles Kettering Quotes
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.
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I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
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Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
