Charles Beaumont Quotes
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
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I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)
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We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
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Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .
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It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.
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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
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The whole end of speech is to be understood.
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I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can’t, and you hate yourself because you can’t, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God’s help you can command your will when you can’t command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn’t appear to agree with us.
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You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.
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(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Honest men make unconvincing liars,' I lied convincingly.
