Dave Foley Quotes
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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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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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
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The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
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I no longer need a large television set in my vanity van and just go to Hotstar on my phone - it is much easier to watch everything there.
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No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
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Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.
