Charles Ruff Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I've always believed that you need to find interactive applications on the Internet.
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I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
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Is this still the White House's stated and actual policy?
