Charles Fletcher Dole Quotes
It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?
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My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back, so I eventually said yes.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
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The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success.
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Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
