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I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

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Charlton Heston
Age: 84 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 4
Died: 2008
Died: April 5
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Trade Unionist
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Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
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A policemans job is only easy in a police state.
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I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.
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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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Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.
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Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique.
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You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!
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You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the 'assault weapons' of the First Amendment. They're ugly, a lot of people don't like them, but they're protected by the First Amendment - just as 'assault weapons' are protected by the Second Amendment.
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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 think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.
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I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century
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The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
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To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.
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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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A war put off is not a war avoided.
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It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin - every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands.
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So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men
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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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As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. in other words no one's ever talked me into anything.
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