Jamie Farr Quotes
I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.
Quotes to Explore
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.
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I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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Love is such that God grants us one person who we can spend the rest of our life with. It rarely happens that we don't.
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Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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All humans make mistakes. But there is no room or allowance in the fevered world of conspiracy theorists for mistakes, human errors, anomalies, or plain incompetence, though the latter, from the highest levels on down, is endemic to our society.
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The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by.
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But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?
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I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.
