Vicki Lawrence Quotes
Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.
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Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.
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I think Sephora is great; it's so accessible, and there are so many different palettes that you can get.
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Danes pay very high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would find hard to believe.
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The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
