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.
Quotes to Explore
-
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
-
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.
-
I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
-
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.
-
We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
-
I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
-
This Islam business kidnapped me.
-
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
-
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.
-
There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
-
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
-
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.
-
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
-
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.
-
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
-
Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.
-
I guess there's this mind shift that happens once you're on stage. I don't know, chemicals, something happens and you just... I just become completely in control of where I am. And it's all about trusting the people that you're on the stage with, listening... and it just falls into place really easily.
-
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
-
I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
-
When I first met my husband, he had a very good job - company car, pension plan, grudging respect from his staff - the lot. I, on the other hand, was badly paid and devoid of ambition. Then I had a couple of books published and confounded all expectations by starting to earn more than he did.
-
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
