Harold Ross Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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We sit and read the paper in conjunction with having a little breakfast. Usually fruit salad, or I make myself a smoothie with rice milk, coconut water and yogurt.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I always drive like a madman.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
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Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive.
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I believe potential is a dangerous word; it can be used for anybody. I don't want people to always say, 'He has the potential to be good.' Or, 'He has a couple of years to go.' I want somebody to say, 'Damn, that's a good tight end.' Period.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
