Charles Tillman Quotes

Was a perfect throw. The second one was my fault. It was up there a little higher than I expected, and I lost it.

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• When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

  

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• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
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• I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

  

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• Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

  

  Dan Hill
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• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
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• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
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• Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

  

  Harold Prince
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• Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Up
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• I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

  

  Sam Elliott
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• Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Broken

• Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
  • Question
  • Space
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• Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check it, and every once in a while there's some juicy little tidbit of reward, like the three quarters that pop down on a one-armed bandit. And that keeps you coming back for more.

  

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• I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to write stories about young women, and society doesn't place much of a premium on young women's stories. And I think that's why I gravitate towards it. I really honor that, and I treasure that time, and they should be given that respect.

  

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• Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

  

  Jerry Saltz
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• One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!

  

  Condola Rashad
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• I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

  

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• Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

  

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• One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.

  

  B. R. Hayden
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• Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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• It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
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• Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Learn
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• I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Up
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  • Crying

• Was a perfect throw. The second one was my fault. It was up there a little higher than I expected, and I lost it.

  

  Charles Tillman
  • Lost
  • Fault
  • Higher