James Garner Quotes
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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It had always been a dream of mine to come to New York to work. Coming to New York and looking for work is one thing, but coming to New York and already having a job and feeling like you are already part of the city has been an amazing experience for me.
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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
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I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.
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I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.
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What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
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When the draft lottery came out, and the Clippers said they were gonna draft me, I went to Google to find out more about the Clippers because I didn't know a lot. And I was like, 'Okay, team owned by Donald Sterling.' So then I typed in 'Donald Sterling' in Google, and the first thing that pops up is 'Donald Sterling racist.'
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My experience from working with people is that you can have a conversation with someone or have a meeting with a group of people, and from that meeting will derive an answer to a question that no individual could have ever thought of by him or herself.
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A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one’s wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull.
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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
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I'm old now. It's all right.
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An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.
