Charlie Trotter Quotes
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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My mom and I are very close.
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When I got out of college, I moved to Seattle because it was the nearest big city and still didn't know if I wanted to be a composer, conductor, singer, actor. I just got day jobs and auditioned and took what came, and the theater doors were the ones opening the most.
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it's a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they'll all think, 'Gosh I wish I was him.'
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The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.
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I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.
