Charles Grodin Quotes

I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

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• By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Time
  • Job
  • Team

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sick

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
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  • Canada

• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
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  • Work

• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Myself

• We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Country
  • American
  • History

• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
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• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
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• I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
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  • Gray

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Grow
  • Harmony

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
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• I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.

  

  Maggie Q
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• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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• I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Want
  • Moral
  • Try

• A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Bad
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  • Poet

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
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  • Help

• I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Different
  • Long
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• Intonation is important, especially when it is cold.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Important
  • Cold
  • Intonation

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
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  • Want
  • Computers

• People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.

  

  Anthony Geary
  • People
  • Live
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• I don't accept what people say. I took something to be copied recently, to be enlarged and blown up, and they said it couldn't be done, and I went somewhere five minutes away, and they did it.

  

  Charles Grodin
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