Jamie Farr Quotes
Before 'M*A*SH*,' people in the industry didn't know what to do with this guy with the big nose.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.
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When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.
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Before 'M*A*SH*,' people in the industry didn't know what to do with this guy with the big nose.
