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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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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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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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must make them sensible, by the mildness of your carriage, and in the composure even in the correction of them, that what you do is reasonable in you, and useful and necessary for them; and that it is not out of caprichio, passion or fancy, that you command or forbid them any thing.
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'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.
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Where we've been wise is that, while 'Monk' may have been a risk at the beginning, we've built its success and built on its success. We looked at what was working and why it was working.
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Yesterday, after the Thanksgiving parade, Donald Trump appeared at Macy's to promote his new line of fragrances and business suits. Unfortunately, there were high winds and Trump's hair nearly killed two people.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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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.
