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Charles Krauthammer

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SIMON COWELL You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.
LIAM GALLAGHER In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don'...
BRAD WENSTRUP If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've l...
MARY J. BLIGE I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then ...
STEVE BURNS People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, ...
BARRY LOPEZ If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
DAN GABLE If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.
BEN ELLIOT You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with sati...
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
OSCAR ROBERTSON I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long...
JEFF BEZOS The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John ...
CHRISTIAN SLATER I think we have a tax policy that was designed before Microsoft even went public. I think we've ...
JOHN T. CHAMBERS I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly.
MARY TYLER MOORE I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and ma...
LAILA ALI If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If ...
JAMES CORDEN If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your ego...
BUD GRANT If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffa...
JON STEWART You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through i...
JACK HARBAUGH And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r...
CLINT HOWARD If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not...
GREG BEHRENDT I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not re...
EMILIA FOX The marketing costs are insane now. So even if you've got a picture like 'Flipped' which...
ROB REINER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ...
JUDY BLUME You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their g...
JOHNNY CASH It doesn't matter if you're winning or losing. You've got to be the same guy; you've...
CARSON WENTZ If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspect...
STEVE CASE If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so yo...
LINDSEY VONN I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the...
ASHWIN SANGHI You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
GABBY DOUGLAS If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to h...
BETTY CARTER If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at...
LARRY POONS I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you'r...
WHIT STILLMAN You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civil...
BARRY GOLDWATER Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to...
MEL BROOKS I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very lin...
JACK DAVENPORT If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family ...
GARY ALLAN I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you...
BEN STILLER If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you&...
KATHRYN PRESCOTT If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we t...
CASEY STENGEL It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any mo...
LARRY DIXON But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
EARL BUTZ To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worr...
LES CLAYPOOL You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forwar...
KEVIN COSTNER You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lo...
LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You'...
SCOTT TOLZIEN I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'Go...
MARTIN FREEMAN I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're...
SIMON COWELL If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
MAISIE WILLIAMS Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've ...
CALVIN JOHNSON I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I'v...
CHARLES SOULE If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting rol...
STEPHEN REA The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get...
DAVID FINCHER The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Ma...
RICHARD DAWKINS Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You'r...
CALVIN JOHNSON I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If...
DANIEL BRYAN I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their fr...
KELLY BROOK I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
VANESSA BROWN You know, you have a lot of people - I've met a lot of people in the past, I've gone to priv...
ISSA RAE If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.
DAR WILLIAMS I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to eras...
AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you...
KYLE MACLACHLAN I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in yo...
ASHLEY MONROE If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
IMELDA MARCOS You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve befor...
KNUTE ROCKNE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable fo...
RANDY LERNER You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like th...
STUART SCOTT You've got to bring it. You've got to make sure people feel the energy you're trying to ...
CHAD KELLY When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
DANIEL CRAIG I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd...
COLIN TREVORROW If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to chan...
TOBIN BELL In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young you...
ESAI MORALES Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what y...
JEFF FOXWORTHY I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out ...
ALAN ZWEIBEL It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't li...
JULIA ROBERTS You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act...
RACHEL BILSON Most of the time, I've got my kids with me, so I'm not as prone to meeting people. And then,...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're n...
ELTON JOHN If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k...
MOS DEF I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you'r...
PHIL MCGRAW Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got ...
YOLANDI VISSER At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
LARRY HOVIS You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No wa...
LANCE HENRIKSEN Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playma...
CALVIN JOHNSON I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role a...
ALEXANDER SIDDIG I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't...
CARL REINER When someone recognises you or wants an interview, you think, 'You know, maybe I've done som...
ANA IVANOVIC I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd bett...
COLIN TREVORROW If you watch a guy go out on court and have a meltdown, you're not going to think, 'Oh my Go...
JOHN MCENROE It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their sea...
OWEN HART I want people - especially young girls - to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex a...
NICKI MINAJ But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington...
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CHARLES DICKENS We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official...
CHARLES PEGUY We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ...
CHARLES MACKAY Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ...
CHARLES MICHEL In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ...
CHARLES MICHEL God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
CHARLES WESLEY Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
CHARLES READE The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...
CHARLES DICKENS There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
CHARLES DICKENS At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...
CHARLES DARWIN False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...
CHARLES DARWIN I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explan...
CHARLES DARWIN Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
CHARLES DARWIN How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ...
CHARLES DUHIGG Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
CHARLES RICHARDS There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, ...
CHARLES DUHIGG You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d...
CHARLES SCHWAB All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer instal...
CHARLES PLATT I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun...
CHARLES SOULE