Jason Robards Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I never left doo wop.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
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I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
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So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd gone elsewhere and came in only to tell me that. He was pretty belittling, and he had to tell me I was no good. Where it ended up, I asked him not to come back.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
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The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.
