Sam Donaldson Quotes
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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I meditate and I'm passionate about it.
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If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.
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I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
