Walter Munk Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.
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You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.
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The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
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OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
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I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
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While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.
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Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship.
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The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.
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We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.
