Charles Kuralt Quotes
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
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I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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Being a bad guy is fun for me.
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
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I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.
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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four.
Mark Spitz -
I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.
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That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
