James MacArthur Quotes
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.
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I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
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A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.
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The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show.
