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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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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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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For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the best character for the story? If that character happens to be a woman, fantastic.
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My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.
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I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.
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I don't mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt - that hurts.
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You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing.
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No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.
