Charles Lederer Quotes
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
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I don't belong much anywhere.
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I've never really fit in anywhere.
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I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know thenI wish I could start this whole thing over againI'm not sayin' it's you could never be trueI just don't wanna know how it endsYou'd still have my heart in the palm of your handsI'd still look like a fool in front of your friendsYeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then.
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If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
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I realized probably when I was, like, 20 years old that the hardest thing to do is to write a pop song - not, like, a candy-pop, throwaway pop song.
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It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
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I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.
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Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.
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The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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I associate creativity with independent music.
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.
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History proves nothing because it contains everything.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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Who will dance on the floor in the round?
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.
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It's amazing what your body does to produce another human... you should thank your body for what it does.
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
