Wayne Rogers Quotes
I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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Most men are fragile.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
