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Larry Hagman Quotes

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 21, 1931 - November 23, 2012

Topics

Strength Character Discipline School

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

Law Chaos Democracy You Rule Of Law

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

Business New Why Risk Reason Degree

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.

Integrity Character Opportunity Time

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It's part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

Nature Business Technology Best You

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

End Places Talk Box Up Little

Pregnant women who are in places where Zika is spreading should do everything they can to avoid mosquito bites. And we, as a society, need to do everything we can to control Zika. That means learning more about it; that means controlling mosquitoes more effectively. That means achieving a vaccine.

Learning Women Control Society Need

When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'

Humor Wait Comedy You Dark Drama

If I could go into a time machine and be in my 20s again and do 'Flora the Red Menace,' I would. That was always the one. I mean, have they done that? I don't think so. No one's done that show. That was sort of a dream role of mine.

Time Red Think Dream Go Done

I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.

Myself Looking Back Looking American

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.

Life Motherhood My Own Evolving Own

There are a whole lot of little tales told in 'Presumed Innocent,' whether it's about the Hobberly kid, who was an important witness who ends up assassinated, or an accountant named Marcy Lupino, who meets a horrible fate in a state penitentiary. There's less of that in 'Innocent,' and deliberately so.

Fate Accountant Innocent Important

In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the polar opposite opinion, and you bash them together. To me it is an outlier to have a conversation be the basis of why you are listening.

Sports Together Me Opinion World

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