Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
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I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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I hate being too pretty.
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I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at all; then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did 'St. Elsewhere' and all those TV movies.
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My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
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Portia de Rossi is a gorgeous woman, and I found it incredibly refreshing to discover that she puts very little stock in her appearance, instead preferring to concentrate on what goodness she can put into the world around her - a choice we can all learn from.
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Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then I forgot about it, then reread it and remembered again.
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Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
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I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
