Ugo Betti Quotes
The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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Failure is a part of success.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
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The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.
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We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
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Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
