Charles Krauthammer Quotes
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu's original programming and not just 'Mozart in the Jungle,' which everyone is watching, apparently.
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There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.
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Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
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Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
