Charlie Simpson Quotes
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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I love women more than anything.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.
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Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.
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Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith: this also holds true for political reason, which must not consider itself omnipotent. For its part, religion always needs to be purified by reason in order to show its authentically human face. Any breach in this dialogue comes only at an enormous price to human development.
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I've taken my destiny into my own hands and I'm in a happy place.
