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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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Sometimes it's necessary for your sanity to hone in on the things that you love and the people you enjoy hanging out with.
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I'm a huge 'SK-II' person. I'm their Malaysian spokesperson. But I truly love their products - it's not just something that I endorse. I always moisturize with the SK-II Essential Power Rich Cream.
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My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.
