Charles Issawi Quotes
Cynics: Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
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After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
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One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
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I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.
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I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
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I’m the messenger, but I’ll tell you what, the message is the right message.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
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Cynics: Cynics are right nine times out of ten; what undoes them is their belief that they are right ten times out of ten.
