James Garner Quotes
What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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We just kept going down the road, we kept trying to make the next record, the right choices to get there.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
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Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.
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Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.
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I want to run the beach's length, because it never ends.
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What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
