Dennis Quaid Quotes
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and unpacked it with Bush.
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I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation.
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There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.
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I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
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What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.
