Charles Grodin Quotes
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
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Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
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The time to hesitate is through.
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I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.
