Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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From caring comes courage.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
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I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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Lunch was my favorite part at school.
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Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
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Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.
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At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.
