Charles E. McKenzie Quotes
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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My mom, Cheryl, worked two jobs to support me. She really helped the family stay together.
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Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.
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I consider myself more exportant than important.
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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I'm not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world seems to be full of people who understand it.
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Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
