Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.Charles Baxter
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
Wallace Shawn -
I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
Natalie Wood -
'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
Brown Campbell -
I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
Ed Harris -
Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
Gale Sayers -
Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
Gary Zukav
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde -
In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.
Victor LaValle -
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
Victoria Pendleton -
Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Rachel True -
Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
Irene Dunne -
We say in popular speech that we come into this world, but we do nothing of the kind. We come out of it. In the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb, we are symptomatic of the universe. Just as in the retina there are myriads of little nerve endings, we are the nerve endings of the universe.
Alan Watts
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We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.
James Gleick -
I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
Jemima West -
I started out with machine code and assembly language.
Charles Petzold -
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.
Anne M. Mulcahy -
Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.
Alan Siegel -
You can't trust very many people.
George Best
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Please clap.
Jeb Bush -
Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
Yeardley Smith -
I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
F. Murray Abraham -
I always embrace the worst-case scenario.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.
John Hoeven -
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.
Charles Baxter