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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I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.
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There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
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A lot of the surreal writing that I love is really dreamlike. Like Murakami. He uses the real world, and it's pretty recognizable, but its populated by these strange visitors, or it has these underground spaces. I was always really compelled by that.
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Ive seen it all, done it all, known it all.
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Mother's love outlives everything.
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It does make you a better director and a better actor.
