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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The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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I'm an actor, so sometimes there are moments where I think about everything that's happening and I want to cry. I'm doing what I love and I will be doing it for a very, very long time - and it's amazing. A lot of people don't get to do that.
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You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
