Charles Lamb Quotes
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
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I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
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They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
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I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.
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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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When Abu Zubaydah was shown a series of photos of al Qaeda members by Soufan, he identified one of them as the operational commander of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.
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If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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There's a lot of people that are in need. We're going little by little... I'm only one person, but we are contributing.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.
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And half had staggered that stout Stagirite.