Larry Hagman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.”
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“Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.”
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“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”
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“It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.”
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“All my heroes, I guess, like John Wayne and all those guys, they drank and they smoked and did all the manly things. It was expected of you. And now abstinence in all kinds of forms is a part of living. It's a pretty - I don't smoke anymore, I quit that 42 years ago”
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“Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.”
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“I often ask people if they would like to give their organs when they pass on, and they say "Well, I'm not so sure, I don't know." And I said, "Well, would you accept one if you needed one?" "Well, yeah, sure." And I say "Well, there you go - where do you get them from?".”
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“I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
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“A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.”
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“My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.”
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“People who are living donors who give kidneys. You can't give a heart and you can't give a liver, but you can sure give a lung - well, kidneys, anyhow. And that's where the main part of this whole thing is - one out of every eight people, I believe, is going to have some kind of kidney problem during their lifetime.”
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“I had a real epiphany. I guess it was during and after the operation. I did what's a common thing; I kind of raised above the table and could look at me and listen to all the people talking and understand what they were saying and so forth.”
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“I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.”
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“Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.”
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“I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.”
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“I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.”
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“Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.”
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“Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?”
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“I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.”
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“At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.”
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“Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.”
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“I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.”
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“When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.”
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“I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.”
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“We've got to find another way of producing energy.”
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“Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.”
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“No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.”
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“On being asked by Channel 4's Derek Thompson if he owned horses - No, son. I don't like anything that eats while I sleep.”
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“I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.”
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