Wayne Newton Quotes
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
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Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.
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I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
