Charles Pollock Quotes
Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
Quotes to Explore
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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I'm a real romantic.
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Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.
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The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Countries that want to achieve sustainable growth must cater for diverse forms of work and consider the rights of all workers.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.
