Dick Van Dyke Quotes
I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
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Bonam quippe intentionem, hoc est, rectam in se dicimus, operationem vero non quod boni aliquid in se suscipiat, sed quod ex bona intentione procedat. Unde et ab eodem homine cum in diversis temporibus idem fiat, pro diversitate tamen intentione eius operatio modo bono modo mala dicitur.
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I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.
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Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.
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I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.
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I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.
