Charles West Churchman Quotes

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.

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• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Work
  • New
  • New York

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • World
  • Home
  • Weird

• I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Different
  • Words
  • Years

• Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • America
  • Better
  • Step

• I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

  

  Fannie Farmer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.

  

  Zendaya
  • Day
  • Hair
  • End

• I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Done
  • Day

• The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Free

• I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • You
  • Feel

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• Kids are very cruel to each other.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Kids
  • Very
  • Cruel

• I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Black
  • Feeling

• I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Never

• We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.

  

  Randy Pausch

• I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Business
  • Simple
  • Sports

• There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • God
  • She
  • Nature

• As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Trying
  • Simple
  • Reason

• I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

  

  Sebastian Arcelus
  • Language
  • Speak

• It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.

  

  Charles West Churchman
  • Simple
  • Wise