Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful.
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I love to swim, and I love being near water.
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I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.
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I push myself as hard as I can every day so I can achieve my goals and so I feel I have nothing to regret later on after my career.
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
