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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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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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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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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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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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
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Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.
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My daughter lived with my wife being ill since she was 2.
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I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
