Charles Bock Quotes
What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
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The finest mode of transport known to man.
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In Germany, people feel like they own classical music, that it is somehow theirs. Over there, everyone still learns to play, and the great composers don't seem alien.
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If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.
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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
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What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.
