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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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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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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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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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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I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be a good person, an excellent neighbor, a compassionate heart? What does it mean to say that God exits, that He loves us and He cares for us? What does it mean to love and forgive each other? Parents and caregivers of children must play a primary role in returning our society to a healthy sense of the sacred. We must commit to feeding our children’s souls in the same way we commit to feeding their bodies.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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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.
