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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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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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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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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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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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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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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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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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 the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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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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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.
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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
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The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
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When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides.
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I'm a child of the 70's. R&B to me is Curtis Mayfield. Then a transition came in and I was part of the Hip Hop era when Sugar and Kane came out. That was a good transition for me. Then now R&B is Hip Hop and Hip Hop is R&B.
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Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.
