Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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Being in love doesn't mean loving.
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I was a momma's boy. I didn't get anything from Dad, except my body and baseball knowledge. The only time I spent with him was at the ballpark.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.
