Al Capp Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.
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I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
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Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
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Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
