Kenny Baker Quotes
I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
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The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
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Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.
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Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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A film has its own life and takes its own time.
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THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
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I started performing in 1950 at the age of 16 when I joined the Burton Lester's Midgets as a performer. Shortly after, I became a DJ with Mecca Organization before joining Billy Smart's Circus as a clown and shadow Ringmaster.
