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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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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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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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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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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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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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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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
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You always want to have good balance. That's the key to winning a Super Bowl. You look at the teams who have won championships, you got to have balance. So, to be able to run the ball effectively and throw the ball effectively is what gives you the chance to win a world championship.
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Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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For you to be able to rap fast and fit many words into a bar, that's what rap is about, the showmanship. That's the thing we're kind of losing now. I'm not saying that the music now is horrible. I mean, I don't listen to it. The showmanship and creativity in rap is what made it special and what made it different.
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I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
