Ed Asner Quotes
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.
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It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute.
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Imagine what seven billion humans could accomplish if we all loved and respected each other.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
