Charles Bock Quotes
My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
Quotes to Explore
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
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Last time I checked, private nonprofit organizations have a right and a responsibility to be able to set the highest standards and criteria on their own without interference, let alone the level of vicious attacks and coercion that has occurred by Planned Parenthood.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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While it can feel unfair to have to make a career decision because of a morally deficient boss, doing so can sometimes lead you in the right direction, if a bit faster than you otherwise would have preferred.
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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
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I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
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A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
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I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.
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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
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If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
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Management’ll never go for it. First, it’s live-animal research, which is controversial. Management hates controversy. Second, it’s something innovative, which means Management will hate it on principle.
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I love pizza; you can't really go wrong with pizza.
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My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
