Marty Feldman Quotes
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I love India.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.
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In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.
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I don't enjoy anything while I'm doing it. I enjoy having done things, though.
