Red Buttons Quotes
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
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The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.
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When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.
