Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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At the end of the day, you entertain for few hours, but people remember a good human being for a longer time.
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Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.
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We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
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We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.
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I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
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I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.
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People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.
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You are transmitters. Everywhere you are sitting in meditation you are transmitting vibrations, do you know that ? At that time if you are thinking say of your jobs and your other things which you have been thinking before, the transmission is poorer. Think of love. Think of the whole country, think of the whole world at that time. You are transmitters of these waves of love, and love will flow from you.
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If I want to make a grime tune I'll go ahead and do it, but I don't really have the urge to right now.
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I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.
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Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
