Dick Van Dyke Quotes

When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that.

Dick Van Dyke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 13, 1925

Topics

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Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.

Jimmy Kimmel

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Faith came by just believing God's word and taking Him up on His word.

Andrae Crouch

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My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Anna Faris

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At home, I never plate. Things go in the middle of the table, and you serve yourself. In the restaurant, every day I plate things, but at home, I want to enjoy my company.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

Amy Bloom

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We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

Steve Bannon

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I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

Romeo Miller

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They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Michelle Shocked

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I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

Joseph Pulitzer

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I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.

Domhnall Gleeson

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It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

Willie Stargell

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When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?

Susie Orbach

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