James Garner Quotes
It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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Study and practice are both very important, but they must go hand in hand. Faith without knowledge is not sufficient. Faith needs to be supported by reason. However intellectual understanding that is not applied in practice is also of little use. Whatever we learn from study we need to apply sincerely in our daily lives.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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When I want to party, I play Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love." That's always been the song that my friends and I get ready to; or before I go on a first date, I play it to feel sexy.
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It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.
