Charles C. Mann Quotes
Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.
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I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.
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Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.
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Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.
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Americans are willing to cheer on politicians who denounce bureaucratic overreach and job-killing red tape in abstract terms. But they turn out to like specific regulations against toxic chemicals in their drinking water.
