Charles Fletcher Dole Quotes
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
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One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
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I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.
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Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.
