Charles Kuralt Quotes
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.
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I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.
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Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties.
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
