Charles Coburn Quotes

There are two kinds of people - those who don't do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven't done, and those who are too busy to write about it because they're out doing it!

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• In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Gay
  • Sad
  • Down

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

  

  Ouida
  • Death
  • Gay
  • Unknown

• There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Different
  • Class
  • Cells

• My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Bad
  • Philosophy
  • Prepared

• When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Mission
  • Focused

• I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Family
  • Money
  • Mother

• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Like some magistrate grown gray in office,Calmly he contemplates alike the justAnd unjust, with indifference he notesEvil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Good

• Your Dollar is your only Word,The wrath of it your only fear.You build it altars tall enoughTo make you see, but your are blind;You cannot leave it long enoughTo look before you or behind.

  

  Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Long
  • Fear

• The friendship I had with Elvis began to take shape in 1968 when I was recording in Memphis. I'd record during the day, and Elvis would send one of his guys over to bring me to Graceland at night. Everything you've heard about Graceland during Elvis's glory days is true and then some.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • True
  • Night
  • Friendship

• The truth is overrated.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Truth

• I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

  

  Marguerite Young

• It's hard to stop wars, and it's hard to stop the abuse of the planet and all of those things. I guess you just do what you can do and voice your concern.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Stop
  • Abuse

• After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

  

  Mary Martin

• I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Pretty
  • Friend

• In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • God

• Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • People
  • Cultures

• In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

  

  John N. Mitchell
  • Important
  • Mind

• You've got to change with the public's taste.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Change
  • Taste

• There are two kinds of people - those who don't do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven't done, and those who are too busy to write about it because they're out doing it!

  

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