Charles Portis Quotes
I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
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My father was a lawyer.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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I understand those who don't like me.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
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I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
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Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society. Most with whom you endeavor to talk soon come to a stand against some institution in which they appear to hold stock, - that is, some particular, not universal, way of viewing things.
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My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
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I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
