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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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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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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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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I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.
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I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.
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Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
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So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can't change the songs; people still want to hear "Lady Sings the Blues" and they still want to hear some of the oldies.
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I deal only in facts, that's why I'm a cocky fuckin' bastard.
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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.
