Charlie Haden Quotes
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.
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Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
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We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.
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At the end of the day, I'm a man.
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Boys are so much drama.
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He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it.
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The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.
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I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.
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J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal.
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I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.
