Dick Van Dyke Quotes
In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
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I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.
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So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
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People know the broad strokes of what it's like to be Spider-Man, but I wanted to really get into the details.
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Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.
