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Tony Curtis Quotes

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 3, 1925 - September 29, 2010

Topics

Service Navy Up Tender Pacific

Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.

Family Future Business Help Meet

The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

People World Better Help Become

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

Work Ego Way Up Stomach Just

I'm a Jewish son of Russian-Hungarian heritage parents. Humor was very important. My whole goal was to make my parents laugh. And my whole strategy as a young man was, if I could make them laugh, I could have enough time to figure out what to do next.

Son Time Humor Man Parents Strategy

I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

Life Focus Personality World Guitar

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life Courage Proportion Shrinks

When we were doing 'Viva Variety,' we knew, 'Boy, this really cracks us up, but this is not for everybody. This is a little weird.'

Robert Ben Garant

Weird Doing Boy Up Little Variety

Athletics is a luxury.

Roger Bannister

Luxury Athletics

As things may turn out in the future, people may (though I doubt it) find that their work gives them all the enjoyment - physical, intellectual or aesthetic - which they may require. That certainly is not so now.

Work Future People Aesthetic Doubt

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

City Rich Poverty Poor Rule Greater

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Dominique de Villepin

Achievement Peace Forget Become

I've probably played more non-police roles than people realize.

People More Realize Than Roles

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