Charles Bass Quotes
Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.
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The problem a lot of writers have is that they really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.
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You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
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It has become a routine for the media to link me with all the stars I work with.
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Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.
