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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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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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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There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
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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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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
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I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.
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I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.
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I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.
