Charles D'Ambrosio (Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr) Quotes

We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.

Charles D'Ambrosio

• Choices
• Feelings
• Embrace
• Contradiction
• Essays
• Coexistence
• Ambivalence

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• Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.

  

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• We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

  

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• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

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• My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

  

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• I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, 'I'm gonna change my life, I'm going legit. This is where I'm at.'

  

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• There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

  

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• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

  

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• It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

  

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• I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

  

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• It means so much to me to see Caitlyn Jenner coming out, just by being her authentic self, staying true to who she is, and just living her life.

  

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• I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

  

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• Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.

  

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  • World
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• As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

  

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  • Age
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• I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.

  

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• The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

  

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• I love IMDB. I love that people all over the country get that into it. When I was a kid, you literally had to go to the theater and stare at the poster to see who the hell was involved.

  

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• I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

  

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• Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

  

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• Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish

  

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• We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Choices
  • Feelings
  • Embrace