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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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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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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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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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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I have been performing as long as I can remember, so I built my craft. People think I was discovered after the first show I played once I landed in L.A., and it just happened instantly - overnight. The truth is, I was performing wherever I could for five years.
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No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
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If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
