Jim Nabors Quotes
I've learned that just because you're successful in one area doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful in another.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.
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Each show comes with its own set of problems to work through.
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Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
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There's acting, and then there's auditioning; mastering auditioning is sort of the first thing an actor really needs to nail down when he or she wants to get a part.
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Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
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Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
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Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
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I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.
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Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.
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Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
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It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.
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Great men grow tired of contentedness.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.
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I've learned that just because you're successful in one area doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful in another.
