Dennis Weaver Quotes
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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Being evil is easy.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I got a big mouth.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
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People retire to do what I do every day.
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The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
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I don't see how can I offend Mexicans with the truth. It is what Mexicans want to hear.
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I love the rowdiness, I love how crazy it is during the day. There's a business about it that's great. There's never a dull moment, so it really inspires the music I write.
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Business must be the solution, not the problem.
