Harry Morgan (Harry Bratsberg) Quotes

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

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• I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Cooking

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Culture

• You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

  

  Iman
  • Kids
  • Career
  • Want

• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Wanted
  • Early
  • Figured

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Tree
  • Forest
  • Atheist

• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Animal

• Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Me

• I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Me
  • Player

• There are a thousand ways to play any role.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Play
  • Ways
  • Thousand

• I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Negative

• I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Judge

• I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Feeling
  • Tired
  • Hit

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • People
  • Christmas
  • Year

• Two important features in the modern development of economics are the application of mathematics to abstract economic reasoning... and the attempt at placing economics on a numerical and experimental basis by an intensive study of economic statistics.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Important
  • Study

• I love anyone who breaks the rules, and musicians always break the rules - in an aggressive way.

  

  Donatella Versace

• My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Children

• I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Actors
  • Criticism
  • Afraid

• If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

  

  Harry Morgan
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