Charles Duke (Charles Moss "Charlie" Duke Jr.) Quotes
Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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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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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.
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I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.
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Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
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I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
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My grandfather and I were very close.
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Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.
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Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.
