Charles S. Dutton Quotes

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

Charles S. Dutton

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• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleaning

• It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Different
  • Kid
  • Responsible

• When I was little I had this notion of being a marine biologist. I grew up by the ocean so I was always in the water but realistically, I don't think I would make the best marine biologist.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Water
  • Best

• I firmly believe that we can protect taxpayer dollars, bus drivers' jobs, and the safety of our students. We just need a mayor who actually cares about all three.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Believe
  • Safety
  • Bus

• Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Power
  • Couple

• For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Heart
  • Fitness
  • Burn

• You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Want
  • Maturity

• Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I'm sure the goals will come.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Want
  • Goals
  • Working Hard

• Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Lies
  • Human
  • Religions

• I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Hope
  • Style
  • Influences

• My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Faith
  • Door

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Dance

• The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Celebrity

• I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Ideas
  • Generation
  • Physics

• «Everything that has been published is false, except something, which is what the media has published.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• And yet she had never felt so bereft, as if her presence in other lives were entirely illusory, as if she herself were a kind of facsimile, pleasant but inauthentic. Before she got too old she must wrest some part of her life for herself, or she would fade, vanish, before anyone noticed her disappearance

  Anita Brookner
  • Life
  • She

• I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Sexy

• I don't care what they do. I've said what I had to say about it. I'm done with it.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Done
  • Conversation

• Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Behavior
  • Morality
  • Change The Heart

• I am not working for failure, but for success, and for a real gain, and I must go the way to get it. I am sure the putting manhood suffrage in the Bill is not the way to get it. This has been done by the Chartists, and by the Complete Suffragists, but what has become of their Bills?

  

  John Bright
  • Real
  • Done
  • Success

• This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

  

  Charles S. Dutton