Charles Macaulay Quotes
I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
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Alberto Giacometti in: Peter Selz, Alberto Giacometti. Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and others, distributed by Doubleday, 1965. p. 20
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Slavery, first and foremost, was an energy institution. Shackling human muscle was about getting work done.
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You can't create chemistry. In fact, the chemistry between two actors is for people to see, sense, and judge. The only thing we can do as actors is to come on board individually because we feel the same kind of passion for a script and for a director to cast us because he feels that, as actors, we'll do justice to that part.
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I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.
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Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.
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Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
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It's my only freedom, music, and I'm not going to give it up to anyone else.
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One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.
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I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault.
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There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
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Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
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I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.
