Charles Portis Quotes

Most girls like play pretties, but you like guns, don’t you?I don't care a thing in the world about guns. If I did I would have one that worked.

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• I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• You've got the Trump water and Trump Steaks and Trump's very so-called dodgy university. And so many of the towers, the Trump towers around the world, the Trump resorts around the world, those are not owned by the Trump Organization.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Water
  • Trump

• I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Want
  • Theatre
  • Cold

• If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Try
  • Will

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!

  

  J. August Richards
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  • Work

• Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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  • Simple
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• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
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  • Long
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• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
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  • Trying
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• Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

  

  Barry Humphries
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  • School
  • Business

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
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  • Trying

• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
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  • Business
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• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
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• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

  

  Barbara Sher
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• You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.

  

  Fernando Botero
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  • Best
  • Child

• Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

  

  Gail Collins
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
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• When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.

  

  Alexis Wright
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• The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
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• The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger.

  

  David Farr
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• England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.

  

  Cedric Hardwicke
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• We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  • World
  • Hope

• Most girls like play pretties, but you like guns, don’t you?I don't care a thing in the world about guns. If I did I would have one that worked.

  

  Charles Portis
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