Charles Olson Quotes
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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No man fails who does his best.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of music - there's so much to discover still.
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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
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If I did that, Bush would call me a flip-flopper, ... So I'm sticking to it!
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I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
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I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.
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Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
