Charles James Quotes
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It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had.
