Charlie Kaufman Quotes
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don't go around breaking young girls hearts.
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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
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Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.
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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
