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Dick Van Dyke Quotes

When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Late Television Know Kid Off

It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.

Good Luck Good Luck Perfect Play

There's this intense media spotlight; there's a need to be transparent, and, 'Oh, by the way, I'm also trying to fight a war at the same time.' It's a challenge, but it goes with the job.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Time Challenge Job Fight War Media

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

Hope I Am Enough Dream Therapy Am

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

Problems Way Decide United Elections

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

Basketball World Learn You Young

Jazz is very important. It's not something I can put my finger on. When I'm writing at my favorite time, I like to have the gentle side of Coltrane or Brubeck on the CD player. It creates sort of a spiritual space in which I write best.

Miller Williams

Time Best Spiritual Space Writing

There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

Life Living Way Boldness Take Us

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

Douglas Tompkins

Work World Eating Year Manufacturing

You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.

Myself Talent Voice Strong You See

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

Character Me Discovery New Every

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

Singing Sound Started Second Could

I was so naive to think once you sign, it's all good, and you are a superstar.

Good Think You Naive Superstar Sign

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