Charles S. Dutton Quotes
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
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The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.
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I became a human placebo.
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There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at the camp bed. I cleared my throat. "Wel...is there a reason we can't both take the bed? The sleeping bags zip together, don't they?" Alex stared at me without moving. "Would that be OK?" I asked, feeling nervous suddenly. The lantern light made his eyes look darker, his hair almost black. He started to smile, a grin spreading across his face. "Yes, that would be extremely OK.
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And what do I want people to get from the music? Whatever they want. Whatever you like. Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.
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I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
