James MacArthur Quotes
Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
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A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.
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People always ask me what I think, if Edward Snoden is a hero, if he's a villain. I don't really tend to moralize it so much as I feel like he's a whistleblower. He's someone who saw a wrongdoing and in order to shine a light on that wrongdoing had to bend some rules and break some laws along the way.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
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Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!
