Charlie Rowe Quotes
'West Side Story' I used to watch all the time - I don't know why. Well, I do - it's a great movie. I love the music in it. I love the actors.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I can see now that I should have been strong enough to conquer myself.
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My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.
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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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Bitterness is so ugly.
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'West Side Story' I used to watch all the time - I don't know why. Well, I do - it's a great movie. I love the music in it. I love the actors.
