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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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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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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Fight with a happy heart.
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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I'm very insecure. I'm human, just like anybody else.
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I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
