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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Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.
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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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Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.
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the first ingredient of his work.. is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality.
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don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
