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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At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.
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Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.
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I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.
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I love the feeling of touching the rock, the feeling of my body going up the rock.
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I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
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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.
