Charlton Heston Quotes

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

Charlton Heston

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• I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Time
  • Exit
  • Kicked

• When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Society

• I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Like
  • Combination
  • Tastes

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Mistakes
  • Back

• What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Work
  • Right

• My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Parents
  • Very
  • Workers

• Everyone has class, one class or another.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Everyone
  • Class
  • Another

• I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Done
  • Feet

• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Joy

• There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Calm
  • Players
  • Korean

• This will require a review of our policy toward Pakistan, more guarantees to it, more arms aid, and, alas, a decision that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our non-proliferation policy.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Decision

• Clytemnestra: He collapsed, snorting his life away,spitting great gobs of blood all over me,drenching me in showers of his dark blood.And I rejoiced-just as the fecund earthrejoices when the heavens send spring rains

  

  Aeschylus
  • Life
  • Great
  • Dark

• We had a street gang that was very vivid - very surreal. We were fans of Monty Python. We'd put on performances in the city center of Dublin. I'd get on the bus with a stepladder and an electric drill. Mad shit. Humor became our weapon. Just stand there, quiet - with the drill in my hand. Stupid teenage shit.

  

  Bono U2
  • City
  • Hand
  • Stupid

• There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.

  

  Robert James Ritchi

• Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

  

  Bill Pascrell
  • Work
  • Today

• You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Giving
  • Bridge

• It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Important
  • Future
  • Failure

• Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Enemy
  • Defeat

• I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

  

  Charlton Heston