Charles S. Maier Quotes
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
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I've always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
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The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.
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My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
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You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
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Star kids always get an upper hand at the start of their career. People in the industry often know them from the time they were toddlers, so they show support to them when their film is about to release.
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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.
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No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.
