Kenny Baker Quotes
I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I had 45 Avril Lavigne posters. Those were my first posters.
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I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.
