Mo Udall (Morris King Udall) Quotes
I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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I've seen 'Legend'. I like a different kind of cinema, but when done with conviction, anything looks good.
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Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
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What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
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'There is no God,' the wicked saith,'And truly it’s a blessing,For what He might have done with usIt’s better only guessing.'
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Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
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If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
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My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
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I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.
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I really want to do film, but I want to do the right film. The truth for me is that I'm really driven by stories. So there are stories I want to tell, and if it's a good story then I want to do it, whatever genre it is.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play.
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I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.
