Charles Duke (Charles Moss "Charlie" Duke Jr.) Quotes

I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.

Charles Duke

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• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
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• The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I can swear like a fishwife.

  

  Frances Bay
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• You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
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• Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

  

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• I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

  

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• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

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• I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

  

  E. B. White
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• It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.

  

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• Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.

  

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• Washington newspaper men know everything.

  

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• Playing in arenas, that's very non-personal with the crowd.

  

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• When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

  

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• Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world.

  

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• This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

  

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• I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing.

  

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• Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

  

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• I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.

  

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• I've always been absolutely appalling about the future, but I sort of think that was my childhood religion. We were future deniers. You did your best in the present, which was all around you.

  

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• Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

  

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• A wedding, a great wedding, is just a blast. A celebration of romance and community and love... What is unfun about that? Nothing.

  

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• I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.

  

  Charles Duke