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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The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
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But the only comparison that I want to Lenny Bruce is that I'm funny. I'm Freddie Prinze, Puerto Rican all the way.
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Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
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It certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is able to cope effectively with the ongoing dilemma in the Middle East.
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If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.
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Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America.
