Chuck Mangione Quotes
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
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People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.
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I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.
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I think glamour is synonymous with me.
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You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
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My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
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Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious - living minimally is.
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:
