Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

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• The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Country
  • American
  • Together

• Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • You
  • Fiction

• Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Health
  • Organization

• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • School
  • Reason
  • Prison

• God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

  

  Walter Kirn
  • God
  • Character
  • Enough

• I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Future
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Dark

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Night
  • Son
  • Child

• For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Me
  • Space
  • Myself

• I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Politics

• I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Superman

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Me
  • Best
  • Actor

• If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Temptation

• If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Money
  • Health
  • Learning

• The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Country
  • Running

• Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

  

  Michael Moriarty
  • Water
  • Sports
  • Loses

• I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball and did ballet as well so was very athletic. I wasn't curvaceous; I had muscles on my arms and shoulders. Often I felt like hiding them rather than showing them off, as I felt they were masculine.

  

  Bryony Shaw
  • School
  • Age
  • Football

• Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

  

  Geneva Carr
  • People
  • Art
  • Job

• Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • History
  • Science
  • Church

• I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
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