Ken Curtis Quotes
I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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War is the province of danger.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!
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My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.
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Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as 'Little Lulu,' 'Frontline Combat' and 'Classics Illustrated.' But the works that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Carl Barks's 'Donald Duck' and 'Uncle Scrooge' comics from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
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Hopefully, at the end of all this, my music is going to be used as a tool to help people have meaningful conversations and meaningful relationships with themselves and with other people and with God.
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I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
