Charles Brent Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
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If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
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... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.
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When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.
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The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
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The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.
