Chuck Norris Quotes
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile.
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Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
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Whatever may be thought of my art, it is my own; and I would rather possess a freehold, though but a cottage, than live in a palace belonging to another.
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There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.
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People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
