Dick Van Dyke Quotes

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

Dick Van Dyke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

Joe Simon

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I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

Amy Klobuchar

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Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Ambrose Bierce

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But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.

Solomon Burke

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What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

Steven Johnson

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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Tommy Lasorda

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I was not much good as a waitress.

Mary Beard

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My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player.

Luke Rockhold

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Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

Juanes

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I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.

Christopher Lee

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My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'

Craig Kilborn

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The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.

Arnold Newman

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