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" For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me. "
Dick Van Dyke
Life
Time
Through
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" Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things. "
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" Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him. "
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" I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business. "
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" I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired. "
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" I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you. "
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" I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do. "
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" I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler. "
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" When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that. "
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" I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything. "
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Old
" Put me on solid ground and I'll start tapping! At my age they say to keep moving. "
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" I think the saddest moment in my life just happened two months ago. My old nightclub partner passed away, Phil Erickson down in Atlanta. He - I owe him everything. He put me in the business and taught me about everything I know. "
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Life
Business
" I wanted to be a radio announcer. "
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Announcer
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" Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation. "
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" Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. "
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Women
Will
" There are no sure answers, only better questions. "
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Sure
Questions
" I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner. "
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Loner
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" One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. I went over there and spent the afternoon with them. And pumped him with questions. I must have driven him crazy. I spent a lot of happy hours at Stan's house on Sundays just talking about comedy. "
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Happy
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" I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind. "
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Insecurity
Made
" In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. "
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Stay
Seventies
" The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer. "
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Wood
Out
Great
" The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving. "
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Secret
Moving
Keeping
" Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening. "
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" I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying. "
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Generation
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You