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 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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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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Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.
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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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I really just dabble in music; I really just did a few albums for my fans.
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Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.
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There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.
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We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.
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The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.
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An hour series is a killer. It's hard on you physically.
