Frank Oz Quotes
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
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Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler. It was 2010, and Trump was being honored by a charity - the Palm Beach Police Foundation - for his 'selfless support' of its cause. His support did not include any of his own money.
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Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.
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Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.
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I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.
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I love 'Time Bandits;' it's great.
