Kay Arthur Quotes
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
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My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
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I would be uncomfortable raising the federal funds rate if readings on wage growth, core consumer prices, and other indicators of underlying inflation pressures were to weaken, if market-based measures of inflation compensation were to fall appreciably further, or if survey-based measures were to begin to decline noticeably.
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I'm happily married.
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Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
