Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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I think I am feeling comfortable in Bollywood more than in Hollywood because I have spent more time here now and I am understanding a lot of things. I am feeling pretty good here. I really don't plan on running off anywhere.
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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I started out as a Democrat.
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Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
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Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.
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What do we have for veterans? Government-run health care. I understand that. Congressmen and senators... they get five choices of government-run health care. Why should a congressman and senator get anything more than a regular citizen does? Why are they privileged and the rest of us aren't?
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The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
