Chuck Pagano Quotes
If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.
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Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.
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In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
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When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.
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In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I believe in people, especially suffering people.
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Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.
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One of the first auditions I had in New York was for a commercial where I had to go in and audition to be a snake charmer... It was either some bank commercial or something where they wanted a guy charming a snake... I remember they wanted to know if I actually knew how to snake charm.
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To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise - and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
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There is no such thing as the Shadow Cabinet. It is purely a Press term. The Prime Minister is by no means bound to include the members of the Shadow Cabinet in his Cabinet, or even in the Government. I myself left several out.
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I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world.
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She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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People walk around pushing back their debts Wearing pay checks like necklaces and bracelets.
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The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.
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If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.
