Charles Van Doren Quotes
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.
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I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.
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Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
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And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
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I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
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In the course of history the refugee was the first peaceful immigrant. In a social structure offering no place for a stranger, the unfortunate who had" taken the flight and so evaded death and black fate" at the hands of his enemies was sheltered under the sacred law of hospitality, since he came "as a fugative and a suppliant".
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I never wanted to see another quiz show.
