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 want to make some happy music.
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Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
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Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.
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I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.
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Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.
