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My dad always said he couldn't remember a time when I did not want to act.


Gwyneth Paltrow
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There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.
Jorge Posada
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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.


Roger Moore
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Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.
Richard Kiel
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There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did. He made my job as a catcher so much easier. Mariano is a special person and obviously a special player.
Jorge Posada
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.


Irwin Shaw
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I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
Idris Elba
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I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.
Richard Griffiths
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When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
Dave Matthews
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I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.
Mike Scully
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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann
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People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
Bryn Terfel
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Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.
Curt Schilling
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We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
Paul Simon
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He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.


Max Baer
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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Honor your commitments with integrity.


Les Brown
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.


Michel de Montaigne
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