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It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
Charles Erwin Wilson
Too Much
Past
Control
Too
Birth
Birth Control
Futile
About
Like
Talk
Make
Trying
Much
Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.
Charles Kelley
Me
People
Song
Met
Chemistry
Meet
Later
Randomly
Out
Would
One-Night
Some
Hustling
Week
Dave
Write
Writers
Had
Songs
Instantaneously
Over
Town
Like
Hillary
Singer
She
Around
Said
Nashville
Came
Been
Get
Trying
Asked
Her
Night
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Charles Kettering
Work
Will
Job
Experiment
Say
He
Fail
Failing
Over
Employee
Until
Learns
Hired
Trying
Often
Biggest
Again
Newly
Teach
Keep
Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective tariffs - even when we benefit from them.
Charles Koch
Political
Opposing
Benefit
Spent
System
Favors
Protective
Decades
Trying
Subsidies
Mandates
Them
Far
Even
Including
Rig
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt
Love
Good
You
Language
Imitate
Imitating
Tell
Exactly
Could
Writer
Am
Falling
Falling In Love
Trying
Which
Rhythms
Plagiarism
I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
Charles Olson
Walls
Once
Both
Climb
Up
Trying
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
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.
Charles Vest
Education
Better
Other
Our
Cost
Through
Support
Make
Make Up
Up
Efficiencies
Trying
Graduate
Process
Gaining
Activities
Elements
Fund-Raising
I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.
Charlie Brooker
You
Together
Age
Space
Social Media
Pressure
Put
Performance
Know
Identity
How
Trying
Which
Social
Your
Media
Cope
One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle.
Charlie Cox
Day
Me
Problem
Try
Difficulties
Seven
Eat
Something
Weight
Put
Lot
Up
Very
Times
Trying
Six
Turn
Skinny
Naturally
Keep
Carbohydrates
Muscle
I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying to do.
Charlie Hunnam
Time
Needs
You
Think
Most
Around
Fame
Get
Trying
Done
Just
Actually
Inconvenience
There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.
Charlie Hunnam
Journey
Me
Business
Sometimes
Approaching
Nothing
Other
Crisis
Kind
Total
Like
Self-Discovery
Operating
Go
Motivations
Existential
Hand-In-Hand
Trying
Any
Just
Avoid
Profession
Ever
Zone
It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.
Charlie Hunter
Great
Me
Imagination
Way
Ways
Scary
Part
Exciting
Opened
Particular
Genre
Gotten
Been
Lot
Up
Very
Get
Trying
Any
Just
Really
Use
Thing
Third
I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.
Charlie Kaufman
Memory
Out
Feels
Like
Trying
Figure
I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.
Charlie Kaufman
Life
Truth
Time
Me
You
Mind
My Life
Think
Way
About
Given
Part
Idea
Like
Also
Talking
Intellectually
Trying
Sitting
Being
Movie
Process
Explain
Interested
Being Honest
Explore
Appeals
Even
Here
Watching
Honest
I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.
Charlie Kaufman
Tell
Truthfully
Trying
Story
We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.
Charlie Kaufman
You
Become
Out
Boring
Rather
Open
Know
Than
Get
Trying
Going
Which
Script
Figure
Actor
Thing
I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a better place. You get a bunch of very intelligent people sitting around trying to do good, I immediately get kind of suspicious and squirm in my seat.
Charlie Munger
Good
You
People
Better
Believe
Think
Immediately
Kind
Costco
More
Civilization
Better Place
Around
Does
Rockefeller
Very
Bunch
Intelligent
Than
Intelligent People
Get
Trying
Sitting
Suspicious
Place
Foundation
Seat
If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.
Charlie Munger
Life
Me
Thinking
Else
Pretty
About
Insisted
Through
Never
Come
Learned
Because
Answer
Doing
Came
Get
Trying
Any
Anything
Anything Else
Capable
Then
Successes
Acting
Hard
Right
Things
Right Answer
It's remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
Charlie Munger
People
Stupid
Consistently
Remarkable
Instead
Advantage
Long-Term
Like
How
Gotten
How Much
Very
Intelligent
Trying
Us
Much
Prior to the 'Chappelle's Show,' you know, no one would even listen to me, in the frame of, 'Oh, he is trying to be funny.'
Charlie Murphy
Funny
Me
You
Frame
Would
No-One
He
Know
Prior
Trying
Listen
Oh
Show
Even
There's only going be one Richard Pryor. You know how many came out after Richard Pryor and died trying to be compared to him? Or Bernie Mac? You got to be like you.
Charlie Murphy
You
Mac
Out
Only
Like
Know
Him
Got
How
Came
Trying
Died
Pryor
Going
After
Richard
Richard Pryor
Many
Compared
'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.
Charlie Puth
Myself
Day
Crazy
You
Song
First
Kind
See
Pretty
About
Marvin Gaye
Songwriter
Blew
Wrote
Prove
Came
Up
Trying
Again
Interesting
Much
Next
I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful because I grew up listening to different types and variations of soulful melodies and jazz, but experimenting with different types of stylistic souls.
Charlie Puth
Music
Me
Listening
Jazz
Think
Type
Types
Melodies
Variations
Make
Because
Soulful
Always
Souls
Stylistic
Up
Trying
Going
Different
Grew
Experimenting
Different Types
I don't know how to put this gently, but I'm trying to tackle the biggest question of all, which is the God question.
Charlie Trotter
God
Tackle
Put
Know
Gently
How
Question
Trying
Biggest
Which
I spent the whole time I've been in WWE trying to build this character who is unbreakable, who is not vulnerable, and who is not relatable. For me to let down my guard and let people in, I had to make that decision, and once I did, I had to own it.
Charlotte Flair
Time
Character
Me
People
Decision
Build
Own
Down
Guard
Once
Spent
Had
Make
Vulnerable
WWE
Been
Trying
Did
Who
Whole
Let Down
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