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.
Quotes to Explore
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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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.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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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.
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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.
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How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
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Shah Rukh Khan is the love of my life. I love Aamir Khan also.
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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.
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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.
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At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country.
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They were very careful and kind. So careful and kind it was positively tactless and spiteful.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.
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I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.
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All of us involved say 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the best five years of our lives. We were like otters at play.
