Charles Capps (Charles Emmitt Capps) Quotes
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
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Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
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Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.
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We tried it different ways in the first half of the season and now we just have to do it the way Mo Cheeks wants it done every night.
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[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.
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It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.
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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
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After a while you 'd start to see who was good at that job and they treated it like it was the most important thing to them in the world.
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
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Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.
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Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.
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I made a pact with my three-year-old thumb-sucking daughter that if she stopped sucking her thumb, I would stop sucking my pipe.
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It is in your power to release the ability of God.
