Charles Cumming Quotes
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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I try to learn from Falcao, and Manu Riviere as well - his movement is excellent - it's really good for me. I need to work on my movement and my finishing, but seeing these guys on a regular basis gives me a benchmark.
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Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve.
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I'm not good with bullies and zealots.
