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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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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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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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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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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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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I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.
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Most people think good enough is good enough.
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If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.
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Men are always like, 'You're so intimidating.' I don't find myself to be. But whatever - I'm not going to try to be less intimidating. It's just a matter of finding a guy who's able to deal with it.
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It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.
