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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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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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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The ALAS Foundation was born as a consequence and a continuation of what we are doing with Pies Descalzos. I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then, I have been very involved in the crusade for education.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
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This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.
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I'll tell ya, I don't get no respect... The other day, I got back from a business trip. I got in a cab and said to the driver, "Hey! Take me to where the action is!" So ya know where he took me? He took me to my house!
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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.
