Charles Comiskey Quotes
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.
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I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.
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You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
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Whatever age you think I am, you're probably right.
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One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
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There's thieves among us Painting the wallsAll kinds of lies, and liesI never told it all
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The fraction of Americans working in occupations concerned primarily with information has increased from 20 to nearly 50 percent of the work force.
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I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.
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You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.
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The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.
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There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.
