Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Quotes to Explore
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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We can't have - we can't have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal with this problem once and for all, and that's what we want to do.
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A lie is like a snowball: the further you roll it the bigger it becomes.
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Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
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Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.
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Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
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Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
