Charlton Heston Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Ambition is the death of thought.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.
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I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
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People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
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It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it.
