Charlton Heston Quotes
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.Charlton Heston
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson -
It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
Zoe Saldana -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
M.I.A. -
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Fiona Shaw -
I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
Ildar Abdrazakov -
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
Sam Harris -
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
Abbie Hoffman -
I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
Im Dong-Hyun
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
T. B. Joshua -
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston -
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt -
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
Gary Allan -
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
Laura Spencer -
I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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My wealth is very limited. I need to influence other people to give.
Chen Guangbiao -
Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
Anna Chlumsky -
It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
Phyllis Diller -
I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.
Rachel Caine -
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain -
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston