Pierre Salinger Quotes
The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Music is my release.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.
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If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.
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Sam faced something he had never conceived of in all his life—the triumph of calumny.
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The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
