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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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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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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But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement.
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Sometimes we need to be reminded that there are things we are facing that only God can save us from.
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Stupidity took me pretty far.
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The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
