Charlie Trotter Quotes
I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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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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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.
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One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
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I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.
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You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you think they're going to have a dog temperament in that they're going to run to the door when you get home, lick you on the face and cuddle with you all the time, but cats are not that way.
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I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.
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I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.
