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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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 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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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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No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
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Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'
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After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.
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Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.
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My friends and family are not really fixated on the specifics of 'Star Wars.' My parents don't know anything about 'Star Wars.' They've never watched a 'Star Wars' film.
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I don't think there are any rules in real face-to-face relationships or interactions. I think authenticity and being yourself is always, without a doubt, the best plan of action. Things happen differently when you're actually here, so you can't put out a general guideline that's gonna show up in text and be interpreted. There are no rules. Just be yourself.
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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
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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.
