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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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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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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Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.
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That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
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There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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Life is about having a good time.
