Charles Kuralt Quotes
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.
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I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.
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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
We take each week as it comes; we're juggling just like everybody else. It's all about spinning plates.
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It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.
