Gene Chandler Quotes
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I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
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Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
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Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.
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You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World.
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My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
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I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
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I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.
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When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'
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And... as long as they need me, it's easier to forget that I am alone.
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Hold a true friend with both your hands.
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Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.
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I had nothing to prove and everything to lose. But it didn’t take love to sacrifice something of yourself for someone else. It just took desperation.
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I originally passed on Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.
