Kenny Baker Quotes
I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
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My ex-wife is a water sign and I'm an earth sign. Together we made mud.
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Only ideas won by walking have any value.
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I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.
