Charles Buck Quotes
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
