Dick Van Dyke Quotes

My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

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• To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Great
  • Language
  • Limits

• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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  • Book
  • Truth

• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Myself

• That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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  • Looking
  • Intelligence

• I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Great
  • Myself

• My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Time
  • School
  • Remember

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
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  • Dad
  • Mom

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • Simple
  • Present

• I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Think

• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Fun
  • Never
  • Segregation

• When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Nice

• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Game

• I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Good
  • Problem

• The last time Congress seriously addressed the notion of creating a way to keep track of America's guns was 1968.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Time
  • America

• I started out, coming out of college, I had my Realtor's license, and I did real estate full time for a number of years.

  

  Bill Huizenga
  • Time
  • Real
  • College

• I honestly think that with our generation - Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller - there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be.

  

  Joseph Altuzarra
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Deserve

• We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Identity
  • Nation
  • Cards

• My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
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