Dick Van Dyke Quotes
When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
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Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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LeBron's one of the most freaky athletes of all time.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.
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I have to make sure that I don't silence myself about the things that I believe in, because sometimes the fear creeps in of 'What if fewer people watch the show or fewer people hire me because I express my politics?' For me, the commitment is to never be quiet just because I'm in the public eye.
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I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.
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If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.
