Charles Portis Quotes
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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My father is an amazing person.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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By the time I was five, I was a little diva.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.
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Time just gets away from us.
