Jim Nabors Quotes
When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
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Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
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Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
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The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
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The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators.
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The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
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The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
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A Negro girl could never be purely innocent. The vengeful Race Fairy always lurked nearby; your parents' best hope was that the fairy would show up at someone else's feast and punish their child. Parents had to protect themselves, too, and protect you from knowing how much danger you all were in.
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If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.
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When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had.
