Ken Venturi Quotes
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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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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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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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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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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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 don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
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You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.
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I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.
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The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
