James MacArthur Quotes

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

James MacArthur

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• Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Past
  • Partner
  • Decade

• I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fashion

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Stop
  • Band
  • Door

• I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • World
  • Political
  • Lost

• Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Move
  • Radical

• I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Luxury

• I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Acting

• Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Remember
  • Piano
  • Early

• I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Animal

• Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Party

• How Long Is the Coast of Britain?

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Long

• I am definitely a beach person. In fact, I am so much a beach person that my wife is allergic to beaches now.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Wife
  • Beach

• If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in an Israel Horovitz play, you say Israel Horovitz is the greatest playwright of all time.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Time

• Probably she should not have gotten away with it for as long as she had...but sometime, he had often thought, the retribution will come: reality denied comes back to haunt.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Long
  • She
  • Reality

• You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Successful

• You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

  

  James MacArthur
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