Charles Schumer (Charles Ellis Schumer) Quotes
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
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As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don't know how to ride a bike.
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Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
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The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
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I thought it was time to add a little humor.
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I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.
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When I was a kid looking at pictures of the Sphynx, and the Pyramids, and different tribes in Africa, all of that stuck with me, and I always wanted to see those things and meet those people.
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How deeply did you learn to let go?
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We’re seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.
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When I was in Iraq and Afghanistan, I never once turned to someone before a raid on a house and said, 'Hey, man, are you a Democrat or a Republican?'
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With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.
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Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
