Charles Kettering Quotes
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
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I think the legacy of the space station will be that we can do something this technically complex in an international way.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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The continued propinquity of another human being cramps the style after a time unless that person is somebody you think you love. Then the burden becomes intolerable at once.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
