Dan Blocker Quotes
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
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The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.
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I grew up in New York.
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I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
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The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
