Charles Buxton Quotes
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
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You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.
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In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.
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Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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I'd rather be at home with Ray,I ain't got seventy daysCause there's nothing,There's nothing you can teach meThat I can't learn from Mr Hathaway.I didn't get a lot in classBut I know it don't come in a shot glass.
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All this could be part of a plan. But it’s some plan, isn’t it?; With mass destruction, pitiless extermination and annihilation going on all the time.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.
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I lift weights. It's one of the reasons I get up so early.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.
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She loves performing - they end up standing and cheering. She loves being independent, she loves making money on her own. She doesn't need to, but old folks worry about money, and this is one way to keep the paranoia at bay.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
