Charles Bass Quotes
I and other like-minded members will not vote for the final package when it comes back if it has drilling in the Arctic there.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
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Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
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Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.
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If this guy is God, then this is the God that the United States of America deserves.
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It is the weak man who urges compromise-never the strong man.
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The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.
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I've always loved the Bond films.
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My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
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Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.
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I'm not a feminist.
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It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.
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...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.
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Data are becoming the new raw material of business.
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If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.
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I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. There are millions of African-Americans now cycling in and out of prisons and jails or under correctional control or saddled with criminal records. In major American cities today, more than half of working-age African-American men either are under correctional control or are branded felons, and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives.
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I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.
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I and other like-minded members will not vote for the final package when it comes back if it has drilling in the Arctic there.
