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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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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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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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
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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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We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world.
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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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Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.
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Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.
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I expose people to magic, I expose them to something they're never otherwise going to see in their boring normal lives.
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I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.
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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.
