Laurence Olivier Quotes
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash flow for people to spend on goods and services, less money to start businesses, and less money for businesses to expand - i.e. creating new jobs and hiring people.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
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And that's what happened to that show. It started ordinary, it started really rather bad. As I said, there was a review that said, really, we think the commercials are better than the show. And then it gradually developed.
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I'm not going to beat the cancer. I tried really hard... but sometimes you're just not going to beat the thing... I wanted to walk off the stage and say anything I thought was important; I had my hour.
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When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
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You ain't got the answers Sway!
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I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself…They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.
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We are all-so to speak-intellectuals about something.
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Upon the bank, she stood In the cool Of spent emotions. She felt, among the leaves, The dew Of old devotions.
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I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her.
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I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.
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This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.
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I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.
