Charles Beaumont Quotes
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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My life is my message.
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I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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Peace is not enough, they must also be content.
