Charles Durning Quotes

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

Charles Durning

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 28, 1923 - December 24, 2012

Topics

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I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.

Jennifer Garner

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I always design with the occasion in mind, so I particularly enjoy creating bespoke pieces; it's always an exciting challenge for me creatively.

Jenny Packham

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My mother has been famous for longer than anyone else alive.

Anderson Cooper

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The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

Robert Smith Surtees

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You have to treat every day as a new challenge, and you have to remain paranoid, as they say.

Anand Mahindra

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I may look like an American WASPy doctor or lawyer, but I feel just like Woody Allen. Don't cast me for my looks - I have a very ironic, existential, crazy Jew in me.

Spalding Gray

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I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.

Roy Lichtenstein

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If we do find ET, we will at least have something in common with them. They may live on planet Zog and have seven tentacles, but they will be made of the same kinds of atoms as us. If they have eyes, they will gaze out on the same cosmos as we do. They will, like us, trace their origins back to a 'Big Bang' 13.8 billion years ago.

Martin Rees

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On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We sat down on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a banner that read 'One Million Deported Under President Obama' and refused to move when the police ordered us to.

Luis Gutierrez

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Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.

Cory Gardner

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What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

Bob Marley

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People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

Art Donovan

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