Danny Kaye Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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I don't know if I want her to sing it with us, but I'm curious to what type of song Taylor Swift would write for us. I'm curious to see what kind of pen she would write for TLC. Or like an Adam Levine. Somebody like that. They're phenomenal writers.
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
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I grew up watching the 'Muppets.' In New Zealand, the 'Muppets' were as big as anywhere else I think. It was a pretty global phenomenon.
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Tom Cruise has-we all have-the right to practice how we feel...don't judge someone until they have tossed your salad.
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
