Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.
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Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!
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Always follow your own path.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
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Living in the moment means entrance and exit are simultaneous- the moment is now. Zen saying... works!
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It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.
