Dick Van Dyke Quotes
I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
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I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness.
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I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
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I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.
