Charles S. Dutton Quotes
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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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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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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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, 'smoked salmon and Bach.' (Now, sixty years later, my answer would be the same.)
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I'm not a hero or a superstar. I'm an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids recognise me.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
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I have to admit, I go through phases of being good and bad. When I'm being good, I go to the gym three to four times a week. I do much better in a class with other people. I like aerobics and circuit training.
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I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.
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I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
