Ken Venturi Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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I think I need security.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Singing is and always will be a part of my life.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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The older I get, the more I have to think long and hard about what I need to say and why.
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The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.
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A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records. Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
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I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
