Jim Backus Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
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My grandma and my mom are not happy about the fact that I am still a bachelor. It's not on my mind that I have to find the person I'm going to spend the rest of my life with. It will happen the way it's going to happen.
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The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
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A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
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What is art? Prostitution.
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Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
