Charlton Heston Quotes
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
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The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.
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The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
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Presidential and vice-presidential debates are not about campaign staff or consultants, and it is high time we as a people took control and reminded them and their candidates of that important fact.
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You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.
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The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
