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You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

Everyone has said very supportive things coming out of D.C. today. We can't wait when the race has begun.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.