Charles Edward Merriam Quotes
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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It's the essence of a degenerating mind periodically, to lose all sense of continuous self, and therefore any regard for what others think of your lack of continuity.
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At consignment shops, I can collect things reasonably, and it's joyful. My dining room table was $75, and I'm so proud. It's beautiful.
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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.
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That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.
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Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
