Hal Holbrook Quotes
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
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I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.
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While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.
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The funny thing is, I was never purposely blonde. I just got highlights, and then you get highlights over highlights, and then it looks like you're blonde.
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We are-proudly-a people with no sense of class or caste. We judge no man by his name or inheritance, but by what he does-and for what he stands.
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It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.
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I start to wonder if I’m being creepy. I mean, I am creeping. Does creep-ing automatically make one creep-y? Or are there dispensations for…romance? I bet all stalkers believe they’re being romantic. I did it for love, officer.
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Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not have quite hit the note to the perfect pitch, but there was a soul in there and feeling that,to me, delivers the emotion of that moment. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not going to be perfect - that's the thrill of it.
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Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.
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I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States.
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'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.
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Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.
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Let's make some funny pictures.
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The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.
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I have sort of a love/hate relationship with LA. I wouldn't say that I love living there, but it's the place where I do the things I love.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
