Johnny Weissmuller Quotes
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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I've done a lot of things in my life.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
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I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.
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Let mine not be that saddest fate of all To live beyond my greater self; to see My faculties decaying, as the tree Stands stark and helpless while its green leaves fall... "She lives, but all her usefulness is past."
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.
