Charlie Quotes - Page 12

• You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

  Charles Haughey

  Giving, Ireland And The Irish, Rope

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• I remember when I was coaching down at Florida, we would always lose kids in recruiting battles to Clemson. I would tell my coaches that we shouldn't be losing kids to Clemson. Charlie Strong responded ‘coach have you ever actually been to Clemson?’ I hadn’t but I’ll tell you what, I’ve been here now and I get it. This is an exceptional, special place.

  Urban Meyer

  Strong, Kids, Florida

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• It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.

  Enoch Powell

  Kings, East Berlin, Choices

  The Daily Telegraph, April 29, 1967.

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• Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.

  Warren Buffett

  Gun, Years, Vices

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1988.

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• One of my favorite places in San-Francisco is Aunt Charlies drag show. You pay $3 and see shows that literally give you goose bumps and bring you to tears. As a performer, you know they're giving 100% and you can't help but cry.

  Christopher Owens

  Aunt, San Francisco, Giving

  Source: www.gq.com

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• We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Angel, Fans, Comedy

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• My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.

  Judd Apatow

  Brother, Grandfather, Albums

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they might murder you. One would be hard pressed to find another group of people on this planet whose music is a surrogate for murder. One would be hard pressed to another group of people on this planet whose life is a proxy for death.

  Frank B. Wilderson III

  Aka, Play, People

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• When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Hair, Long, Shade

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• I've had my Charlie Sheen moments, it was usually just at the Mars Bar on the corner of First Avenue with me and a few homeless guys.

  Moby

  Guy, Bars, Mars

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Innovation, Needs

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• In the wake of the deaths of the satirists, Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie, became a slogan of solidarity for free expression around the world.

  Scott Simon

  Expression, World, Solidarity

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• I watched that new reality show on ABC with Charlie Gibson, 'America's Next Top Vice President.' ... Oh, what an exciting show that is! Did you see Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson? Did you all watch that? In fact, John McCain was watching it at home, and at one point, he turned to his wife and said, 'She looks really familiar.'

  Jay Leno

  Home, Reality, America

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• Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.

  Jeff Ross

  Standing, Larry

  "Charlie Sheen's Naughty, Bawdy Joke Man Reveals Surprising Secrets of the Tour (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

  Charles M. Schulz

  World, Brown, Wells

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• [Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg, Berg and Webern? Are you listening to that music and what do you feel about it?" These were the conversations that he was having. And he also said, what he learned from Charlie Parker was, not that he studied with him in the formal sense, is that the first thing that Charlie Parker would always ask was, "Did you eat today?".

  Jon Gordon

  School, Thinking, Bird

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• In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.

  J. J. Johnson

  Hero, Together, Bebop

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• LINUS: Where are you going for Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown? CHARLIE: My father, my mother, Sally, and I are all going to my grandmothers for dinner. SALLY: Do you want to come too, Linus? We can hold hands under the table. LINUS: BLECH!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Mother, Father, Hands

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• Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Thinking, Chinese, Devil

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• Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

  Daniel Keyes

  Men, Want

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• If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.

  Sergio Leone

  Oscars, Auteurs, Chaplin

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Blessing, Past, Remember

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2010). “This World We Live In”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think there's plenty of room, even in the most serious activist circles, for humor. Humor can be very effective both to inspire, and as a weapon. Just ask Frank Zappa and Charlie Chaplin.

  Jello Biafra

  Thinking, Circles, Inspire

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• Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

  Neil Gaiman

  War, Mean, Rabbits

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• I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.

  Ray Brown

  New York, Nice, House

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