Charlie Quotes

• Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Stars, Halloween

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• I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.

  Charlie Sheen

  Children, Winning, Blood

  "Top 25 Charlie Sheen quotes from his first week of explaining how awesome Charlie Sheen is" by Tony Pierce, Los Angeles Times, March 01, 2011.

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• I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.

  Charlie Sheen

  Drug

  "Charlie Sheen interview: 'You can't process me with a normal brain'" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2011.

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• As a kid, there are some things you looked forward to. You looked forward to Charlie Brown during Halloween and you looked forward to Monday Night Football.

  Nick Ferguson

  Football, Monday, Halloween

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• I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Pet, Monkeys

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• The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Ideas, Bye

  Ms. magazine, p. 41, August 1972.

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• You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Witty, Men, Good Man

  Charles M. Schulz (2010). “My Life with Charlie Brown”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

  Lita Grey

  Funny, Humor, Genius

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• What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Religious, War, Mean

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• I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

  Edgar Bergen

  Important, Asking, Answers

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• I’ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Ed’s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ed puts himself in that class.

  Ted Templeman

  Art, Player, Thinking

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• Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

  Jay Chiat

  Rose, Ads, Ultimate

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• Eric followed Vlad Tepes’s stubby finger, identifying me as the future Happy Meal. Then he stared at Dracula, looking up from his kneeling position. I couldn’t read his face at all, and I felt a stirring of fear. What would Charlie Brown have done if the Great Pumpkin wanted to eat the little red-haired girl?

  Charlaine Harris

  Girl, Meals, Eric

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “A Touch of Dead”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Teacher, Morning, Writing

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• I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

  Jimmy Greaves

  Soccer, Player, Thinking

  Jimmy Greaves, Ian St John (2009). “Saint And Greavsie's Funny Old Games”, p.196, Hachette UK

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• I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.

  Geoff Ryman

  Beautiful, Witty, Promise

  Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.167, Small Beer Press

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• I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

  Moby

  Fall, Want, Falling Apart

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

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• I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

  Charlie Watts

  Way, Hell, Knows

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• I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

  Joe Pass

  Player, Guitar, Copying

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• We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Warren Buffet, Uncommon

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• Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

  Derek Bailey

  Pieces, Sometimes, Used

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• For a nothing, Charlie Brown, you're really something!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Brown

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• Do you have your own room, Charlie Brown?" "Oh, yes... I have a very nice room." "I hope you realize that you won't always have your own room... Someday you'll get drafted or something, and you'll have to leave your room forever!" "Why do you tell me things like that?" "It's on a list I've made up for you... I call it, Things You Might As Well Know!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Nice, Forever, Might

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• No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking, Woods, Matter

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• All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neck. "Better not," I say. "Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

  Sara Gruen

  Giving, Glee, Bottles

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