Ed Asner Quotes
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I love all things Christmas.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
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She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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Focus on the positives is what I teach my kids. The rest takes care of itself.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
