Phil Donahue Quotes

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

Phil Donahue

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Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.

Joan Cusack

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It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

Andris Nelsons

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As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

Tom Perrotta

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Dramas need to have a certain aesthetic that comedy just doesn't really seem to need to have.

Rob McElhenney

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Honestly, being a 5'11" quarterback, not too many people think that you can play in the National Football League. And so for me, you know, I knew that my height doesn't define my skill set, you know? I believed in my talent. I believed in what God gave me. I believed in the knowledge that I have of the game.

Russell Wilson

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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Rudyard Kipling

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I was a huge fan of Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Jan Hooks, obviously Phil Hartman, and a very young Adam Sandler.

Dolph Ziggler

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Everything about the studio was enormous. You walked through the gates of iron, and it was palatial looking. The first day, I was introduced to Clark Gable. He said, 'Hello, kid. Welcome to MGM. I'm just leaving.'

Debbie Reynolds

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We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?

Arthur C. Clarke

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We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

Arthur Frank Burns

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You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

Arjen Robben

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I am able to put aside personal beliefs and follow the law, even when I strongly disagree with it.

William H. Pryor

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