Ken Venturi Quotes
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.
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In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.
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I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.
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I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
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My grandmother had a great saying. It always stuck with me: 'People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.' They've got to see it and feel it. And it's for real. And that's all. Be who you are.
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The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
