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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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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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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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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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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I have been told I say 'shucks' quite frequently... Shucks, I'll have to work on that.
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Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.
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You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.
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I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.
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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.
