Charlie Trotter Quotes
Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.
Quotes to Explore
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
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When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.
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That's right I never hold my tongue for saving face
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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.
