Charles M. Blow Quotes
The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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I take my work seriously.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.
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I certainly wish I were as good-looking as Aaron Eckhart.
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The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.
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The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
