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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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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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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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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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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If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.
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A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
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Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.
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When you have traveled the world, won Olympic gold, and gone through a very public court battle against your parents all by the age of seventeen, surprises don't come easy.
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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.
