Al Roker Quotes
My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
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I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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Why can't the world be like a summer day, when I thought that health care would be an ethical decision and wars existed only to be stopped?
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Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?
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I thought with a shudder of what Old Castro had told Legrasse about the Old Ones; 'They had come from the stars, and had brought Their images with Them.'
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There is never no hope left. Remember.
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'A pig is a pig,' said the stranger, 'and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.'
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Always realize that even your strongest advocate and opponent is a part of the human family; albeit they may have small shortcomings and even strength in them, they are part of that human family.
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I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.
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I've always known if anything killed me, it would be boys. From the time I was a teenager into my thirties, I loved only the ones who were bad news.
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I love writing with other artists, I really do. Because you can try to guess what they would want to say and how they would sing it.
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The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
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Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.
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Every decision you make is a mistake.
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Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
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My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.
