Charles Van Doren Quotes
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.
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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
