Don Ameche Quotes
I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.

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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I don't really like groups that make the same statement over and over again. It's good, but kind of predictable.
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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
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I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes
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I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.