Ed Begley, Jr. Quotes
I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
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Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
