Craig Charles Quotes
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.
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The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.
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Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
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Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
