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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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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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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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.
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Women are the most underutilized 'resource' in the world economy.
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It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.
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I am sure there is only one solution, that is for me to remove myself from the King's life. That is what I am doing now.
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Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
