Charles L. Evans Quotes
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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Many female politicians get intimidated by the aggressive behaviour of men. I don't. Not because I am a courageous person or anything, but because I see international standards, and I see that they are worth fighting for.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
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I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.
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The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.
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It's sad that because I have one friend who is in the public eye, just being seen out together once means we're romantically involved. But I don't take it seriously, and it doesn't really affect me much.
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The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.
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A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.
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Negative interest rates have been employed by many, many central banks.
