Ed Begley, Jr. Quotes
We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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That's life when you're on the D-list.
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
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When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.
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But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
