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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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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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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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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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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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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I've been a skier since I was 2 or 3, skiing with my dad in northern New York and Vermont.
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.
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From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
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Business must be the solution, not the problem.
