Charles Bock Quotes
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
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Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Ideally, I would love to mix singing and acting, but you can only be a pop star for so many years. I mean, at 30 it's a little bit sad, right?
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Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
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I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior.
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And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
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Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in.
