Charles Keating (Charles Humphrey Keating Jr.) Quotes
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without OLGA.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.
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My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
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I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.
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When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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So far in my career, I've achieved what I've achieved because I've believed that I could do it. And I've never believed that anyone's better than me, because I think when you start doing that, you've already lost the fight.
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That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
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It does make you a better director and a better actor.
