Larry Wilcox Quotes
Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.
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A lot of people will always say, 'I really know nothing about the ancient world.' But there's lots and lots of things people know. Partly, they've been encouraged to think they're ignorant about it. In some ways, the job to do is show people that they know much more than they'd like to admit.
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Ah-rah-han, the first Buddhist apostle of Burma, under the patronage of King Anan-ra-tha-men-zan, disseminated the doctrines of atheism and taught his disciples to pant after annihilation as the supreme good.
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I'd love to be in the ring with guys like Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, and The Undertaker, as, no matter what they've done, I know how good my conditioning is. If those three can say the same thing, I'd love to go and hang with them because I don't think they could hang with me.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
