Charles Rosen Quotes
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	If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.   
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	I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.   
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	Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.   
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	I listen to 'deep dish house'.   
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	I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.   
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	I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.   
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	All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.   
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	Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.   
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	Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.   
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	When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.   
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	In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.   
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	I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!   
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	I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.   
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	Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.   
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	What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.   
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	The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.   
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	I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.   
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	Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.   
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	My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.   
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	I like music because... it makes me feel the most free I've ever felt in my entire life and gives me the freedom to do anything without much consequence.   
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	Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'   
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	I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.   
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	Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.   
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	Our freedom is hemmed in on every side. We must be grateful for what remains.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					