Charles Durning (Charles Edward Durning) Quotes
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.
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Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.
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Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
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The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.
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I was born a character actor.
