Charles Fletcher Dole Quotes

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Charles Fletcher Dole

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• I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

  

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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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• Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

  

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• I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

  

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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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• The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.

  

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• The overall system of a sizeable community struggling to survive in a crowded world may be either socialism or privatism. Either system may work, more or less. But, except in non-critical areas of distribution, commonism cannot possibly work for very long.

  

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• One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

  

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• I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

  

  Lisa Bonet
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• Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

  

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• It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

  

  Charles Fletcher Dole
  • World
  • God
  • Men