Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.
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I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
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Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
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What do you mean by communal? If I speak against the terrorism, is it communal?
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Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
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My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
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I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
