Dennis Weaver Quotes
The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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We were descended from royalty.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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The Abolitionists were right in their attitude to the Church. Slavery and the Church were side by side: the Church was at peace with slavery: men were sold to build churches, women sold to pay missionaries, and children sold to buy Bibles. We did right to oppose it.
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What inspires me is the universe.
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.
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An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn't sort of enter into our economic system because it's a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.
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The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.
