Charles West Churchman Quotes
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is that we can help peace if we help communities transform from the inside, on their own terms.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
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On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.
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Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
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I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
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This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.
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Books are my weakness.
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When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert … a man with a machine and inadequate culture … is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilization is to be counted among the assets of the Black world.
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The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.
