DeForest Kelley Quotes
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.
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In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.
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Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.
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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
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I had fallen in love with California.
