Jerome Charyn Quotes
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.
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Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman-he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it.
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What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?
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I can say without melodrama or malice that Hollywood ruined my life.
