Charles Kuralt Quotes
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.
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People have not given children enough credit to understand the idea of death. But I really think they do.
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Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.
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One has to make a decision when a condition is likely to degenerate if nothing is done.
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There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.
