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.
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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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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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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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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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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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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.
