Ernest Borgnine Quotes
The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
Quotes to Explore
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinist, football player - has to be the best. Why not me?
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
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It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.
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A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
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The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
