Charlie Sykes Quotes
At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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I don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.
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When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.
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An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
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At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks.
