U Thant Quotes
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Actors don't have real value.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?
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If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would go rotten, and you'd starve.
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There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
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War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
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I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
