Walt Garrison (Walt) Quotes
I keep up with guys from the OSU days. Rusty Martin from Checotah, he was my roommate for three years until he got married. Larry Elliott from Elk City. Charlie Durkee, who was a kicker for us. Leon Ward, who drowned in a boating accident, was another good friend. We still have reunions. We all go back to the spring game. We talk about how good we used to be, just like everybody does. As you get older, it's really great to see guys you struggled with. That's what made the Dallas Cowboys close. That'....
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.
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I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
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Ways and Means is the committee that tackles the big issues that affects people's lives and their jobs in a major way.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.
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We become who we hang out with.
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I've had a few encounters: At a restaurant, this woman that was like, 'Oh my God, oh my God, can we take a picture with you? My son said not to, but I just had to. You my favorite 'Devils Girl!'
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.
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I joined a metal band with only guys when I was 17.
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I keep up with guys from the OSU days. Rusty Martin from Checotah, he was my roommate for three years until he got married. Larry Elliott from Elk City. Charlie Durkee, who was a kicker for us. Leon Ward, who drowned in a boating accident, was another good friend. We still have reunions. We all go back to the spring game. We talk about how good we used to be, just like everybody does. As you get older, it's really great to see guys you struggled with. That's what made the Dallas Cowboys close. That'....
