Charlie Pierce Quotes
In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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There's nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.
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The focus around Circle China is really cross-border payments. If I'm a parent in China and my son is studying at London Business School, I might want to send 500 RMB. I should be able to do that and have my child instantly receive it as pounds sterling, in the same way people do that with instant messages today.
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I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.
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The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.
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In theory, at least, all presidents are servants of the people who elected them. In the case of Barack Obama, it has seemed from the start that the idea as applied to him was more than mere metaphor. He is the first president in my lifetime whom the country felt obligated to remind that he know his place.
