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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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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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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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
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The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
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There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
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On the one hand, faith is a profoundly personal contact with God, which touches me in my innermost being and places me in front of the living God in absolute immediacy in such a way that I can speak with Him, love Him, and enter into communion with Him.
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I love 'Time Bandits;' it's great.
