Don Ameche Quotes
God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.
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Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.
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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
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When I am doing music, I sometimes become over compulsive to 'always make some new music'. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.
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I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.
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God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.
