Charles Jaffe Quotes
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
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Liberation is not deliverance.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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Study carefully the law of cause and effect.
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I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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'Why do they believe that?''Because we are hackers,' Csongor said, 'and they have seen movies.'
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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When you're rich, 'crazy' is just 'eccentric'.
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It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.
