Charles Wagner Quotes
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.
