Dick Cavett Quotes

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

Dick Cavett

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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

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In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'

Megyn Kelly

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Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Michael J. Fox

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If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

Amanda Palmer

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There are different pastors that are good at different things, but one of the things I love is everything I do as a pastor is centered around helping people to understand what God has said in his word, so I don't have to come up with a bunch of new stuff to say.

Trip Lee

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As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.

Rob Halford

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Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Russell M. Nelson

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I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

Milton Friedman

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I don't want to sound trite, but 'Star Wars' really, really impacted me.

Lucas Till

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In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them.

Judy Blume

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Halloween is one day of breaking out of your shell, one day you can be completely expressive, where the world gives you license to dress up.

Chris March

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