"Pleasure is the most real good in this life."

-- Frederick The Great

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“Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, 'What a pretty flower,' but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still, not present, they don't truly see the flower, don't feel it's essence, it's holiness-just as they don't know themselves, don't feel their own essence, their own holiness.”
“Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.”

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“Phil Harris and Pat Boone were once paired as guests on an episode of Andy Williams' TV show. During a rehearsal break, Harris suggested the three of them go out for a drink. When Boone declined, explaining he did not drink, Harris asked Williams, "Andy, can you imagine getting up in the morning knowing that's the best you're going to feel all day?"”
“I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.”
“If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.”
“Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit.”
“But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.”
“I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.”

Source : "Ron Kovic: Peace movement will be largest ever". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2003.

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