Wayne Rogers Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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One truth opened another. Ona still shaded everything we did. Ona's death was the last family affair. I'd seen Man suffer. I'd seen her break. Now more than anything. I wanted to see her happy.
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It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.
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Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
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I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
