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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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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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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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.
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Movie stars are now less remote, less fantasized.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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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.
