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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
At my age flowers scare me.
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
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My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
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