Dick Van Dyke Quotes
I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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Practices were tough.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.
