Michael Landon Quotes
Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
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I've always watched the political shows.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I'm the third of five children.
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My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
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There's just no quiet in Vegas.
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I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.
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Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
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When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.
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There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian wouldn't tattle to save his own mother. Indians, over the years, have learned the value of keeping their mouths shut.
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Zealous groups threaten to infringe civil liberties when they seek government support to impose their own religious views on nonadherents. This has taken many forms, including attempts to introduce organized prayer in public schools, to outlaw birth control and abortion, and to use public tax revenues to finance religious schools.
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Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating.
