Charles M. Blow Quotes
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Study first, play afterwards.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.
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I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I’ve written it or I haven’t, I’m very comfortable with both.
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There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
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As cynical as I can be, there's always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.
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Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'
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Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.
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I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.
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I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
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So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.
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The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
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I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.
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I never shy away from herbs!
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Gambling is entertainment... Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.
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I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.
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The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
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She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else?
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Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
