Fellows Quotes - Page 33

• I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations... Anyway, I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western.

  Joel McCrea

  Girl, Falling In Love, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

  Carl Reiner

  Thinking, Skills, Way

  "Reiner's Roar". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. October 26, 2004.

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• The hot gossip in Washington is that Condoleezza Rice might have a new boyfriend. Secretary of State Rice is being linked to Canada's Foreign Minister, Peter MacKay. It's gotta be awkward dating a fellow diplomat. Like today, MacKay had to promise Condi he would get permission from the U.N. before he invaded her.

  Jay Leno

  Gossip, Dating, Awkward

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Dark, Destiny

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.

  James Cagney

  Two, Three, Actors

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• Find your mark, look the other fellow in the eye, and tell the truth.

  James Cagney

  Eye, Looks, Telling The Truth

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• Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.

  Andrew Garfield

  Men, Spiders, Fellow Man

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• The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

  Robert Mitchum

  Differences, Jail, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

  Lee Marvin

  Garbage, Appeals, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.

  Lionel Barrymore

  Beautiful, Struggle, Book

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• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Art, Kindness, Humble

  Hattie McDaniel's Academy Awards acceptance speech for "Actress in a Supporting Role" Award for the film "Gone with the Wind", aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 29, 1940.

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• But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

  Debbie Harry

  Issues, Humanity, Judgment

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• I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

  Jackie Gleason

  Humility, Use, Talent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you were a man, you'd go into business
  for yourself. I know a fellow who started out last year with just a
  canoe. Now he's got more women than you can shake a stick at, if
  that's your idea of a good time.

  Groucho Marx

  Men, Ideas, Years

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• When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be expertly scheduled, from shopping to showers to panic attacks.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Coffee, Home, Suicidal

  Sam Lipsyte (2005). “Home Land: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

  Kathi Appelt

  Soil, Countrymen

  Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all in this together. With fellow ward members and missionaries, we plan and pray and help one another. Please keep the full-time missionaries in your thoughts and prayers. Trust them with your family and friends. The Lord trusts them and has called them to teach and bless those who seek Him.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Prayer, Family And Friends, Together

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• The world would be better off
  if people tried to become better.
  And people would become better
  if they stopped trying to become better off.
  For when everybody tries to become
  better off,
  nobody is better off.
  But when everybody tries to become better,
  everybody is better off.

  Peter Maurin

  People, Catholic, Trying

  "Easy Essays".

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• Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.

  Dara Horn

  Love You, Agree

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• The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Life, God, Christian

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• No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.

  W. C. Fields

  Sympathy, Men, Forgiving

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• It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

  Wallace Stegner

  Drinking, Fighting, Bird

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.131, Penguin

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• We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.

  Gary Snyder

  Pain, Trying, World

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.4, Counterpoint Press

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• You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

  Dorothea Lange

  Heart, People, Tree

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• My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Overcoming, Citizens

  Operation Iraqi Freedom Address to the Nation, delivered 19 March 2003, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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