Albert F. Pratt Quotes
The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.
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If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
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Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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I'm not gay.
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I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.
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The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood.
