Charles Kuralt Quotes
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home.
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People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!
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Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
