Burgess Meredith Quotes
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.
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My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.
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As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
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All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the eternal Son of God through whom alone the Father can be known, approached, and served. He is the appointed Mediator between God and man through whom alone we can be reconciled with God, pardoned, justified, and saved.
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Does this country really exist?
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The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.
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Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.
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i am a herd of cats and a drunk shepherd with alzheimer’s all at once. i am the walrus.
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO.
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At the Rugby World Cup, you don’t just get supporters from the two nations playing each other but you get supporters that are just interested in the progression of the world cup, who love the game, who love the spectacle of the world cup matches and they love seeing some of the smaller nations, too.
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I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.
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I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
