Norman Lear Quotes
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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The fact that President Obama gave up his public holiday (today is the President’s Day) and held the US-Asean Leaders Summit has shown Washington’s recognition towards the importance of Asean
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Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art 'lives' where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the 'self' vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
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When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
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I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
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My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'
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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
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I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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When you cut your hair, everybody thinks you lost weight.
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We have to stop the cycle of violence affecting so many of our communities. We have to love each other.
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I haven't gotten jobs because I'm famous or I have a big Twitter feed - it's primarily directors. People employ me because I'm right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.
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From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.
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Life is about having a good time.
