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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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause.
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No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.
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My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.
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Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
