Charles Cumming Quotes
As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I'm not graceful.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.
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For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
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When we first moved to California from Las Vegas, we got into surfing. We figured we should do something to get in shape, but we hate working out. Surfing is definitely a work out.
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You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.
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In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.
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As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
