Charles M. Blow Quotes
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.
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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
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Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.
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The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
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The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.
