Jim Nabors Quotes
An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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Once I established myself doing crazy things and being extreme, people want to see it all the time.
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Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.
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If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.
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It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
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An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.
