Rod Stewart Quotes
If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
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The world is too violent right now.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
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Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
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I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.
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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
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The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
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I had not seen lawns till fifth grade - big green lawns.
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So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.
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In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
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If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
