Dennis Weaver Quotes
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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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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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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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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I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.
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You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.
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I was a shy little kid, and getting up in front of people and making them laugh and being able to carry on a dialogue rather than a monologue was something that was pretty interesting to me because you could set yourself up - you could ask a question and then answer it.
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It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.
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It means a lot in my business and its a wonderful feeling to be recognized for what you have done over a lifetime, but I didn't go crazy. I still eat my cereal in the morning, have a sandwich in the afternoon, go to bed at night. You know, nothing really different.
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Business must be the solution, not the problem.
