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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I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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They fought. We've just got too many guys going both ways.
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We are looking for guys who won't take any time off and want to compete. We expect our players to do what you have to do to be good leaders. We believe that you earn playing time in practice.
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
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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'....
