Charles A. Dana (Charles Anderson Dana) Quotes
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.
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I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.
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I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
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What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the greatest revolution of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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It is good to praise others but it important to look for faults within oneself. It is nice to be concerned about people but to be introspective is even nicer.
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Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
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That's hard for us to swallow. It's going to be hard for them to swallow. At the same time, we all live in Wake County. Something's got to give.
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...reality, the name we give to the common experience.
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Security starts from home. You have to secure your own people so that those who are coming from outside also will be secured.
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When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.
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When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
