Bart Cummings Quotes
I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live seminars, I decided to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul(R)' book. I knew I wanted to have 100 stories in the book, so I wrote or edited two stories a week for a year.
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E.U.-U.S. ties are deeper than any change in politics.
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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
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I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.
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I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
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People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.
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The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking:
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The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
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You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
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I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.
