Dick Van Dyke Quotes
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
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All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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The cosmology of the ancient world was telling you about the nature of life here and now. Genesis is not about the origins of life. There were many other creation stories current in Israel at that time and no one was required to believe in that one.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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In doing Good, I lose myself in Being, I abandon my particularity, I become a universal subject.
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If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I was sick of being articulate and loud and charming. I didn't want to play that guy anymore. I wanted to play the absolute opposite of that.
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You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
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There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.
