Charles L. Whitfield Quotes
When this vital part of each of us is not nurtured and allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I don't like possessions.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
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I just love people. I love them a lot.
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All we wanted to do was to make live records all available. For us, the idea is to make it all available and let people decide which ones they like better. It's not for us to decide. We don't care about that. What we're interested in is the idea that we made these recordings, and they're not doing anybody a damn bit of good sitting in a closet.
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When I was growing up, Chef Charlie Trotter inspired me a lot.
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When this vital part of each of us is not nurtured and allowed freedom of expression, a false or co-dependent self emerges.
