James Garner Quotes
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.
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I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.
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I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.
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I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.
