Jim Nabors Quotes
Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.
Quotes to Explore
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I love being photographed, I love the ramp.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I love the classic marble inlay work of Arga.
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Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.
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I like to think readers appreciate a well-drawn near-future as well as a well-drawn far-future.
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The only country that can stop North Korea is China.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.
