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I felt like people who had a lost mindset or who occasionally did stupid things were having a 'donkey' moment, or some of them are permanent donkeys, so I just started calling them donkeys. So when I went to Philly to do my own morning show, that's when I first started doing 'Donkey of the Day.'
Charlamagne tha God
Day
Morning
People
First
Stupid
Lost
Own
Philly
Mindset
Some
My Own
Having
Morning Show
Had
Like
Calling
Occasionally
Felt
Permanent
Doing
Were
Did
Donkey
Donkeys
Just
Them
Show
Moment
Who
Things
Started
The most incredible businesses are started by entrepreneurs who relentlessly pursue their passion, but passion works best with a thoughtful, ambitious-yet-grounded business plan.
Charles Best
Best
Business
Passion
Incredible
Relentlessly
Thoughtful
Pursue
Entrepreneurs
Most
Plan
Who
Businesses
Works
Started
I had a stammer through adolescence. Any fun I'd had performing in school plays disappeared and only came back at 18, when the stammer started to go. Then I thought: 'Well, perhaps I can show off now.'
Charles Dance
School
Thought
Show Off
Back
Adolescence
Only
Through
Had
Disappeared
School Plays
Performing
Perhaps
Well
Came
Go
Off
Any
Stammer
Then
Show
Fun
Now
Started
Plays
A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal. Then beverage companies started bottling the production of far-off springs, and now office workers unthinkingly sip bottled water all day long.
Charles Duhigg
Day
People
Water
Long
Few
Meal
All Day
Drink
Outside
Bottled
Bottled Water
Beverage
Unthinkingly
Springs
Sip
Office
Decades
Then
Workers
Production
Companies
Many
Now
Started
I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.
Charles Grodin
Time
You
First
Big
Nothing
Baby
Finally
Doing
Big One
While
Movies
Notice
Away
Right
Right Away
Started
When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.
Charles Kennedy
Me
First
Doors
Energy
Other
Local
Incumbent
Tories
Minister
Ministerial
Struck
General
More
Hostility
Towards
Knocking
Particular
Sheer
Years
Than
Thatcher
Any
May
Depth
Standing
Her
Margaret
Things
Margaret Thatcher
Second
Gray
Started
Two
You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
Charles Koch
You
People
Key
Brutal
Pass
Making
Get
Dependent
Rid
Letting
Started
Program
I started out with machine code and assembly language.
Charles Petzold
Language
Machine
Out
Assembly
Code
Started
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.
Charles Soule
Time
Me
You
Just Be
Spend
Spent
OK
Kind
Both
Could
Writer
Never
Particular
Like
Wrote
Around
Still
Years
Exist
Trying
Just
Them
Then
Really
Professional
Novel
Novels
Professional Writer
Actually
Started
Two
I started writing my own things when I was about 8.
Charli XCX
Writing
Own
About
My Own
Things
Started
I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.
Charli XCX
Time
Progress
Everything
East
Out
London
Only
Scene
Rave
Wanna
Captivated
Ever
Started
Playing
I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'
Charlie Haden
Music
Young
Jazz
Philharmonic
Everything
Saw
Charlie
Classical
Charlie Parker
Classical Music
Parker
Sing
Concert
Said
Becoming
Sounds
Did
Listened
Want
Holiday
Interested
Billie Holiday
Lester
Lived
Play
Nebraska
Started
Omaha
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
Charlie Haden
First
Improvise
Everybody
Everything
Way
Out
Fact
Write
Lot
Did
In Fact
Tunes
Used
Rehearsing
Play
Started
Playing
My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music. That's what they called it back then. They were friends with Roy Acuff and the Delmore Brothers and the Carter Family. And all of my brothers and sisters who were older than me started on the show, after they were big enough to hold a guitar and sing.
Charlie Haden
Music
Family
Me
Guitar
Parents
Country
Hillbilly
Singing
Big
Older
Enough
Back
Carter
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Over
Sing
Big Enough
Were
Opry
Friends
Than
Sisters
Hold
After
Grand
Then
Show
Who
Traveled
Ole
Roy
Started
I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete - it made it all make sense.
Charlie Haden
Made
Sense
Bach
Complete
Everything
Sing
Make
Lot
Listen
Used
Radio
Started
If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.
Charlie Hunnam
Me
Man
Mother
Care
Father
Seen
Sense
Think
Intervene
Those
Crippled
Destitute
About
Beating
Take
Take Care
Instinct
Terms
Make
Course
Boy
Left
Died
Your
Grown
Grown Man
Her
Started
Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.
Charlie Hunter
Good
Me
Doing The Right Thing
First
Patient
Right Thing
Launch
Would
Would-Be
Some
Something
Something Good
Feel
Like
Cliche
Idiotic
Doing
The Right Thing
Then
Bobby
Luckily
Now
Right
Thing
Started
Playing
In terms of 'The Discovery' being a Netflix Original, they actually came on once we had already started shooting.
Charlie McDowell
Once
Netflix
Had
Terms
Came
Discovery
Shooting
Being
Original
Actually
Started
When I first started, it was a dare. Someone basically said, 'You're a tough guy... but I'll bet you won't get on a microphone in front of a bunch of people.' I was terrified, but I did it. Once I broke the ice and got onstage and got some laughs, I thought, 'That's not so bad.'
Charlie Murphy
You
People
Thought
Tough
First
Once
Broke
Dare
Laughs
Bad
Some
Bet
Someone
Guy
Tough Guy
Onstage
Terrified
Said
Got
Bunch
Get
Did
Microphone
Front
Ice
Started
Basically
When I first started doing comedy, I was 42 years old, and I was the brother of one of the most celebrated comics in history who made his name in the game 20 years earlier.
Charlie Murphy
History
Game
Comedy
Old
Made
First
Brother
Name
Most
Comics
Doing
His
Years
Celebrated
Who
Earlier
Started
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.'
Charlie Puth
Life
Song
Words
First
Singing
Big
Manly
Kind
Tried
Guy
Voice
He
Studio
Sing
Wrote
Deal
First-Person
Yeah
Doing
Big Deal
Chest
Heard
Up
Person
Mean
Jason
Choking
Whole
Ever
Started
Puff
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.
Charlie Puth
Music
Mom
Me
School
College
Every
High
High School
Boston
Piano
Like
Taught
Manhattan
Then
Saturday
Four
Started
I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young.
Charlie Tahan
Young
Pretty
Movies
Actual
Started
Watching
I started watching actual movies when I was pretty young. So, I didn't think about it at the time when 'I Am Legend' came out. I just watched it.
Charlie Tahan
Time
Legend
Young
Think
Out
Pretty
About
Am
Came
Just
Movies
Actual
Watched
Started
Watching
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.'
Charlie Trotter
Crime
College
Idiot
Kick
Possessed
Punishment
Brothers
Got
After
Then
Right
Started
I started to ride when I was very young, and it's a sport I have practised for a very long time.
Charlotte Casiraghi
Time
Ride
Long
Long Time
Young
Sport
Very
Very Long Time
Started
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