Charles Kettering Quotes
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
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The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
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Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.
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People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
