Charles Ruff Quotes
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering
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Can't trust a fascist-truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
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Man should know from this rule that he is cut off from truth.
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Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.
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The president has always urged everyone to tell the truth.
