Jamie Farr Quotes
Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
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Growing up in Mississippi - a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression - gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.
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I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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You kill, it's part of your world as a bullfighter, it's a natural part of your world, and then you leave that world and it becomes unnatural.
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Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'
