Charles M. Blow Quotes
America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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Writers are so important.
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Forget your opponents; always play against par.
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I am a restless person.
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Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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America is a living idea. It isn't only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.
