Jamie Farr Quotes
I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.
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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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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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It's been fascinating over the last few years, watching the high and mighty in business and politics fall precipitously-not because their plans didn't work, but because their character flaws undercut those plans. Whether the microphone caught them making racist comments or their greed overcame their common sense, who they were as people made all the difference-more than their résumés, their degrees, or even their past successes. If you fail at the art of being human and staying human, you recklessly court disaster.
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I shake like a ship in a storm. It is a fact that even warming moments overwhelm me with despair, and this is why I am I.
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In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious, and this creates negative energy. This is annoying. I suffered a great deal at one time. I had to fight harder than others. Add to that my marriage to Polanski.
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At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.
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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.
