Dirk Benedict Quotes
I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women.
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Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
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I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
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What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.
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The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
