Charles Schwab (Charles Robert Schwab) Quotes
On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.
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It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
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I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
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I cannot state enough how important post-production is for the success of a horror movie. You bring so much to it with the way you edit it, the way it is sound-designed, and the way the music works with it.
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Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.
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On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
