Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.
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Und sind Sie mit mir einer Meinung, daß es die erste Bedingung zu einem Künstler sei, daß er Respekt vor dem Großen habe, und sich davor beuge, und es anerkenne, und nicht die großen Flammen auszupusten versuche, damit das kleine Talglicht ein wenig heller leuchte?
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It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.
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Those locks of jet are turned to gray, And she is strange and far away That might have been mine own to-day -That might have been mine own, my dear, Through many and many a happy year - That might have sat beside me here.
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while the shadows like long fingers over the haystacks that sweep past keep shocking him because he is riding backwards.
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Significance is sweet.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.
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I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.
