Wayne Rogers Quotes
Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
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To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I'm a slow starter.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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The Western world is having an identity crisis.
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All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.
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Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.
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Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top.
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You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.
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Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
