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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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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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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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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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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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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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 everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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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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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I like to read the papers. I make my living from football, and I like to know what's going on.
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Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.
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We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.
