Jackie Gleason Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation.
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However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'
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Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?
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How sweet it is!
