Davy Crockett Quotes
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Poverty is a state of mind.
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Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
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You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
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Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless.
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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
