Charlie Dent Quotes

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

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• If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Question

• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Economics

• No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Jump

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Movie

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Remember
  • Stars
  • Privilege

• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
  • Go
  • Turn

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Look

• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • You
  • Word
  • Crew

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Healthy

• The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Play
  • Blue
  • British

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Game
  • Weird

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

  

  Janet Reno
  • People

• I take my hair, and I just play with it. I'll just take my hand, I'll mess with the front, and then I'll just pat it on the back, and that's it. I promise you, I don't use hair spray, I don't go crazy with products. I just wake up, flip it, and boom, I go bowling.

  

  Blake Jenner
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Crazy

• If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

  

  Sheherazade Goldsmith
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Water

• The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Live
  • History

• Music without words means

  

  Kabir
  • Music
  • Words

• We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.

  

  Charlie Dent
  • Energy