Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.
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When does the building of the Spirit really begin to appear in a man's heart? It begins, so far as we can judge, when he first pours out his heart to God in prayer.
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Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.
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Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...
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And how am I to face the oddsOf man’s bedevilment and God’s?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.
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However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.
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...teeth set out by a landscape gardener...
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Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.
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Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.
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Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
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Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
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I've always had to work to feel reassured, to feel secure, and that's not nice because you don't know where you stand.
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There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
