Charles Kettering Quotes
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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People take things so seriously.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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I want to have a long career.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I am constantly amazed on every level at how lucky I am.
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The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I love working with PETA.
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We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.
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It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
