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A war put off is not a war avoided.

Charlton Heston

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Charlton Heston
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 4
Died: 2008
Died: April 5
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Illinois
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Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
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I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century
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As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.
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You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.
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You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
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An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.
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I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry.
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I've been a public person for most of my life. It has advantages and disadvantages. I can't take my kids to Disneyland. On the other hand, I can get a table at a restaurant or tickets to a play.
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I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.
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A policemans job is only easy in a police state.
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A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.
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For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.
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One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.
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If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.
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Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
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I don't think rock music has any positive function.
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In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.
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Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
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