Charlie Brotman (Charles J. "Charlie" Brotman) Quotes
The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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I have a fearless but neutral personality.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It's a challenge because I have to do a lot of navigating to make the production stellar but do it on a realistic budget.
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I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.
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Russians are not a very friendly people. It's hard to get them to speak nicely to the customers. It's just not in their culture.
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I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
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Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio.
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You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.
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It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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I throw on a dress and heels and I'm good to go.
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There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
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The radio voice, you're in the studio, there's nobody around, and you're using your personality and enunciation skills to get the message across. At the stadium, there are vendors, there are people, the fans talking to each other. It's very difficult. If you were to speak as a radio disk jockey, no one would ever understand what you're saying.
