Charles Sheldon (Charles Monroe Sheldon) Quotes
Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.
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My passion is doing movies, and as long as I keep doing that, I'll be happy. I want to do movies, fun roles and dramatic ones. I love all of it.
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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
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There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.
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MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.
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If Mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, more likely to have a better quality of life and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.
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For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.
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A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.
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Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
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My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.
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I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.
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Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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Mankind is destined to step beyond his earthly bonds just as his ancestors once crawled out of the seas. Colonizing new worlds . . . the race will survive.
