Ed Asner Quotes
When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
