Lawrence Welk Quotes
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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Playing new songs at festivals is weird, obviously. People at festivals are always a bit drunk, and probably just want to hear stuff they know by bands they love, or are checking you out and don't know your stuff very well.
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If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.
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When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.
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'What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.'
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What is literature but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the Universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.
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If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
