Charles Duke (Charles Moss "Charlie" Duke Jr.) Quotes
I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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There are no new stressful thoughts. They’re all recycled.
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Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
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This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.
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I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.
