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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.
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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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I have a lot of books I want to write.
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Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
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If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.
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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.
