Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (Desi Arnaz) Quotes
An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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I am healthy and happy.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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Secrecy is a compulsive reflex in this country. It strangles thought, delays scientific progress, and destroys integrity.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need to do more - and we can.
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An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.
