Dick Van Dyke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.
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I'm a real pushover for animals.
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There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.
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You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.
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You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.
