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 never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
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America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.
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Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
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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.
