Fred Willard Quotes

'Field of Dreams.' Definitely one of the best baseball films of all time. When Kevin Costner spoke to his dad, and his dad answered, I, um, I mean a lot of guys I know couldn't help crying.

Fred Willard

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• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

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• I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

  

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• I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

  

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• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

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• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

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• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

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• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

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• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

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• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

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• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

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• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

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• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

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• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

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• Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

  

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• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

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• I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.

  

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• I would say if you do have ambitions, don't just wait around. Go out and make yourself as well-qualified as possible so you can take that rare opportunity when it comes along.

  

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• Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

  

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• If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.

  

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• Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

  

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• 'Field of Dreams.' Definitely one of the best baseball films of all time. When Kevin Costner spoke to his dad, and his dad answered, I, um, I mean a lot of guys I know couldn't help crying.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Time
  • Help
  • Dad