Charles Lederer Quotes
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I think I need security.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I had five singles that did not work on country radio, and I still had fans that showed up to the shows.
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I indulged the wild child inside of me - the one that's not aware of danger or fear - for the purity of existence for that character in that film. Of course, behind me they're saying, 'She's crazy!'
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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
