Charles Kuralt Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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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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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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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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It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.
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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.
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For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
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Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
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We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.
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I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
