Charles Kuralt Quotes
Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.
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If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.
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It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.
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All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.
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I grew up around a whole bunch of girls, and one thing I realized is what they had on their plate was very different than what I had on mine. The things girls are made to be responsible for is a heavy burden - take care of your younger siblings, do good in school, have some extracurriculars. The pressure is intense.
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Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
