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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I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art, experiencing things that resonate with what our lives are about. I think people really want to know... want to share, want to have the stimulus to think and care about the way they live their lives, the way they relate to other people, their aspirations, their hopes, et cetera.
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The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.
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You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
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A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.
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Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
