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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I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.
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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.
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I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.
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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.
