Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.

Dick Van Dyke

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• Catalan politics emancipated from the Spanish politics on September 27, 2015. Since then, we've acted with a sovereign mentality, political sovereignty.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Spanish

• He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

  

  Xenophon
  • Pleasure
  • Most
  • Sauce

• I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Me
  • Model
  • New York

• Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Television

• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Responsibility

• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • School
  • High

• We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Try
  • Pull

• I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • Popular
  • Hunger

• Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Character
  • Integrity

• Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it's lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it's time to have a drink.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Time
  • Gym

• I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Music
  • Influence

• My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Mom
  • Humanity

• If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Me
  • Response
  • Against

• I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certificates, and that law only changed in 1973.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Time
  • Law
  • Born

• I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Hope

• For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Important
  • Love
  • Universe

• If you don't integrate the technology in a way that's actually fun, the kids don't stay with the play pattern.

  

  Margo Georgiadis
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Technology

• Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

  

  Elisabeth Shue
  • Today
  • Adventure

• I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Think
  • Military
  • Doing

• We found out that there is no substitute for human contact.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Contact

• Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

  

  Cathy Guisewite
  • Life
  • Control
  • Material

• I played a killer twice. Once on 'Matlock,' on Andy Griffith's show, I got to play the killer.

  

  Dick Van Dyke