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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Money
  • Will

• 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.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Gay

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• 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.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Democracy
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• 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.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Time
  • Different
  • Man

• 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?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Why
  • Job
  • Attention

• I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Never
  • Got
  • Jeans

• What do you mean by communal? If I speak against the terrorism, is it communal?

  

  Narendra Modi

• Actually I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Up
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Daryl Gates
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility

• Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Today
  • Dad
  • Entrepreneur

• 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.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Time
  • Work
  • Winning

• I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.

  

  Kenneth Kaunda
  • Great

• You've got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they're afraid I'll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Good
  • Different
  • Pretty

• I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.

  

  Shakira
  • Work
  • Women
  • Country

• I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Lost
  • Friend

• I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Real
  • Father

• Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you're my hero.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Hero

• Forget the telly, we just go to the crib, watch a movie in the Jacuzzi and smoke Ls while you do me.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Movie

• I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Real
  • Hero
  • Stills