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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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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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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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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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 have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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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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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
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I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.
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Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
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When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to do things like travel on public transport unnoticed.
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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.
