Charles Bock Quotes
I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Actors are a race.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.
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I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?
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I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.
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The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
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The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
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I was not a happy or popular or happy-with-myself kid, and I wasn't an especially motivated student, either.
