Dick Van Dyke Quotes

All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

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• The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Character
  • Way
  • Her

• Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Health
  • Friend
  • Joy

• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Changes

• When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Sister
  • Young
  • Ugly

• I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Long
  • Power
  • Society

• The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • She
  • Age
  • Wonder

• Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Fun
  • Day
  • Dance

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Social
  • Reform
  • Brings

• I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Family
  • Win
  • Sister

• You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Day
  • Myself
  • End

• How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

  

  Randall Terry
  • Men
  • Long
  • Small

• Shah Rukh Khan is the love of my life. I love Aamir Khan also.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Life
  • Love
  • My Life

• Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Success
  • Effort

• From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fall

• At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Country
  • Present
  • Financial

• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Time
  • Long
  • Children

• The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is a hustler. In fact, he's what I call an extreme hustler.

  

  Dr. Dre

• People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people are going to break up, and Target is able to predict if a woman is pregnant before she knows just based on the type of lotion she bought.

  

  Harper Reed
  • People
  • Facebook
  • Modeling

• All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.

  

  Dick Van Dyke