Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
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Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
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In science we must all submit not to what seems to us attractive from one point of view or another, but to what represents an agreement between theory and experiment.
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Positive feedbacks, when unchecked, can produce runaways until the deviation from equilibrium is so large that other effects can be abruptly triggered and lead to ruptures and crashes.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.
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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
