Charles Atlas Quotes
My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
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That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
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You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.
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I do think I know more about clothes than any 500 designers, because there's nothing like wearing them. You buy them, you study them, and you start to understand how they're crafted.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
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I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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I mostly read online - tech/VC blogs. I also enjoy the 'NY Times', 'Atlantic', 'New Yorker'.
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When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.
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My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.
