Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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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 is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.
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Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
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My favorite unknown movie is 'The Comic.'
